Radeon HD 7470 OEM and GeForce GT 420 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7470 OEM
GeForce GT 420 OEM
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Caicos
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2012
September 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
750 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
240.0 gflops
134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
48
Power consumption (TDP)
27 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.000
2.800
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A