AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 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 7900 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 67% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
Around 81% lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 49 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 289 vs 254
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 152 vs 68

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2012 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt vs 49 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	289 vs 254
PassMark - G2D Mark	152 vs 68

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

289

254

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

152

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	289	254
PassMark - G2D Mark	152	68
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 7900 GS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Caicos	G71
Launch date	5 January 2012	1 May 2006
Place in performance rating	1499	1495
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$259
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	160
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm	198 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
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	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3