AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS 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, 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.

AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 350 MHz
Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 6 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
3.6x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 51% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 289 vs 192
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 152 vs 72

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2012 vs 8 December 2005
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	289 vs 192
PassMark - G2D Mark	152 vs 72

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

289

192

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

152

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	289	192
PassMark - G2D Mark	152	72
Geekbench - OpenCL	791
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	540
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1702
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	540
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1702
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	437

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Caicos	NV40 A1
Launch date	5 January 2012	8 December 2005
Place in performance rating	1499	1496
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$249
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	160
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s	5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3