Radeon HD 7470A and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7470A

Switch GPU

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Caicos

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2012

March 2017

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

625 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

200.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

370 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

256

Power consumption (TDP)

25 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.000

12.29

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

5.3

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126