AMD Radeon E8860 vs AMD Radeon HD 7470M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8860 and AMD Radeon HD 7470M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8860

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 4.2x more texture fill rate: 25 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 640 vs 160
  • 3.3x better floating-point performance: 800.0 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1686 vs 408
  • Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 436 vs 393
  • 7.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26300 vs 3322
  • Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1655 vs 1422
  • Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 4345 vs 3074
  • Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1655 vs 1422
  • Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 4345 vs 3074
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 January 2014 vs 7 January 2012
Texture fill rate 25 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 160
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1686 vs 408
PassMark - G2D Mark 436 vs 393
Geekbench - OpenCL 26300 vs 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1655 vs 1422
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 4345 vs 3074
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1655 vs 1422
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 4345 vs 3074

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7470M

  • Around 30% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • Around 28% higher boost clock speed: 800 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • 5.3x lower typical power consumption: 7 Watt vs 37 Watt
Core clock speed 750 MHz vs 575 MHz
Boost clock speed 800 MHz vs 625 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 7 Watt vs 37 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8860
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7470M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1686
408
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
436
393
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
26300
3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1655
1422
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4345
3074
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1655
1422
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4345
3074
Name AMD Radeon E8860 AMD Radeon HD 7470M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1686 408
PassMark - G2D Mark 436 393
Geekbench - OpenCL 26300 3322
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 20.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 529.248
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.683
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 15.803
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 47.86
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1246
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1655 1422
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 4345 3074
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1246
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1655 1422
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 4345 3074
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon E8860 AMD Radeon HD 7470M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale 2
Code name Venus Seymour
Launch date 25 January 2014 7 January 2012
Place in performance rating 1021 1024
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 625 MHz 800 MHz
Core clock speed 575 MHz 750 MHz
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 640 160
Texture fill rate 25 GTexel / s 6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 37 Watt 7 Watt
Transistor count 1,500 million 370 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 72 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory 0