Radeon HD 7470A vs PRO WX 2100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking643not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.96no data
Power efficiency9.36no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameLexaCaicos
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date4 June 2017 (7 years ago)5 January 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$149 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores512160
Core clock speed925 MHz625 MHz
Boost clock speed1219 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,200 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate39.015.000
Floating-point processing power1.248 TFLOPS0.2 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs328

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 3.0 x8MXM-A (3.0)
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth48 GB/s12.8 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 Connectors1x DisplayPort, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2017 5 January 2012
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 25 Watt

PRO WX 2100 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

HD 7470A, on the other hand, has 40% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon PRO WX 2100 and Radeon HD 7470A. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon PRO WX 2100 is a workstation card while Radeon HD 7470A is a notebook one.


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