Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics vs Radeon HD 6470M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1200not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Gen. 5 Arrandale (2010)
GPU code nameSeymourGMA HD
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)10 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$569.99 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16012
Core clock speed700 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors370 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rate5.600no data
Floating-point processing power0.224 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount512 MBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

HD 6470M 1706
+473%
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics 298

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 10 January 2010
Chip lithography 40 nm 45 nm

HD 6470M has an age advantage of 11 months, and a 12.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6470M and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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