Atari VCS 400 GPU vs Radeon HD 8470 OEM

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Primary details

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

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ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameCaicosBanded Kestrel
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date8 January 2013 (11 years ago)14 December 2020 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$249

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 speed775 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1201 MHz
Number of transistors370 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate6.20014.41
Floating-point processing power0.248 TFLOPS0.4612 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 mm295 mm
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR5DDR4
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s38.4 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 HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

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
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2013 14 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

Atari VCS 400 GPU has an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8470 OEM and Atari VCS 400 GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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