Radeon RX Vega 3 vs HD 7470 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated778
Place by popularitynot in top-10080
Power efficiencyno data13.85
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameCaicosPicasso
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 January 2012 (12 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 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 cores160192
Core clock speed750 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1001 MHz
Number of transistors370 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate6.00012.01
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS0.3844 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs812

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 x16IGP
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth28.8 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2012 6 January 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 15 Watt

RX Vega 3 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 80% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7470 OEM and Radeon RX Vega 3. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7470 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega 3 is a notebook one.


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