AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 2% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 738 MHz
  • 5x more pipelines: 160 vs 32
  • 2x better floating-point performance: 240.0 gflops vs 117.5 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 85% lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1008 MHz
  • Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 289 vs 166
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 152 vs 51
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 January 2012 vs 10 March 2009
Core clock speed 750 MHz vs 738 MHz
Pipelines 160 vs 32
Floating-point performance 240.0 gflops vs 117.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 27 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 1008 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 289 vs 166
PassMark - G2D Mark 152 vs 51

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

  • Around 97% higher texture fill rate: 11.81 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
  • 3.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3689 vs 1044
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1731 vs 1702
  • 3.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3689 vs 1044
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1731 vs 1702
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 11.81 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3689 vs 1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1731 vs 1702
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3689 vs 1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1731 vs 1702

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
289
166
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
152
51
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1044
3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1702
1731
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1044
3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1702
1731
Name AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 289 166
PassMark - G2D Mark 152 51
Geekbench - OpenCL 790
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 540
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1044 3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1702 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 540
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1044 3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1702 1731
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 437
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 179.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1813.265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 13.817
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 38.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 757.451

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Caicos G96C
Launch date 5 January 2012 10 March 2009
Place in performance rating 1491 606
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 750 MHz 738 MHz
Floating-point performance 240.0 gflops 117.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 160 32
Texture fill rate 6 GTexel / s 11.81 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 27 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 370 million 314 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 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 16.13 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz 1008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2