GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 vs Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameCaicosGF119
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 January 2012 (12 years ago)2 April 2012 (12 years ago)

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 cores16048
Core clock speed750 MHz810 MHz
Number of transistors370 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt29 Watt
Texture fill rate6.0006.480
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS0.1555 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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 x16PCIe 2.0 x1
Length168 mm145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s8 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2012 2 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 29 Watt

HD 7470 OEM has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 7.4% lower power consumption.

GT 610 PCIe x1, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7470 OEM and GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1
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