Radeon Next vs HD 7470M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1100not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.46no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 6.0
GPU code nameSeymourNavi 10
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2012 (13 years ago)no data

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 cores160no data
Core clock speed750 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors370 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Wattno data
Texture fill rate6.400no data
Floating-point processing power0.256 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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16

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 amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed900 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm

Radeon Next has a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7470M and Radeon Next. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7470M is a notebook card while Radeon Next is a desktop one.

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