Radeon HD 8470 OEM vs HD 7650M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1069	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.91	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Thames	Caicos
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	7 January 2012 (12 years ago)	8 January 2013 (11 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 cores	480	160
Core clock speed	450 MHz	775 MHz
Boost clock speed	550 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	716 million	370 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	20 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.80	6.200
Floating-point processing power	0.432 TFLOPS	0.248 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	24	8

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).

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	168 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	DDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	25.6 GB/s
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 Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 January 2012	8 January 2013
Power consumption (TDP)	20 Watt	35 Watt

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