Quadro2 Go vs Radeon HD 8470D

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1113not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.03no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameScrapperNV11 B3
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date29 July 2013 (11 years ago)14 August 2001 (23 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 cores192no data
Core clock speed800 MHz143 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,303 million20 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattno data
Texture fill rate10.200.29
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs122

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).

InterfaceIGPAGP 4x
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared32 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared181 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data2.896 GB/s
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 outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)7.0
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.41.2
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 July 2013 14 August 2001
Chip lithography 32 nm 180 nm

HD 8470D has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 462.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8470D and Quadro2 Go. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8470D is a desktop card while Quadro2 Go is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8470D
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