AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM and NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 Quadro FX 380M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 24% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 606 MHz
Around 24% higher texture fill rate: 6 GTexel / s vs 4.85 GTexel / s
10x more pipelines: 160 vs 16
5.1x better floating-point performance: 240.0 gflops vs 46.98 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1580 MHz
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 289 vs 121
Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 152 vs 106

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2012 vs 7 January 2010
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 606 MHz
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s vs 4.85 GTexel / s
Pipelines	160 vs 16
Floating-point performance	240.0 gflops vs 46.98 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1580 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	289 vs 121
PassMark - G2D Mark	152 vs 106

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M

Around 8% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 27 Watt
3.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2851 vs 790

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 27 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	2851 vs 790

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

289

121

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

152

106

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

790

2851

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM	NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M
PassMark - G3D Mark	289	121
PassMark - G2D Mark	152	106
Geekbench - OpenCL	790	2851
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 Quadro FX 380M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Caicos	GT218
Launch date	5 January 2012	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	1491	1493
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	606 MHz
Floating-point performance	240.0 gflops	46.98 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	160	16
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s	4.85 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	260 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	12.64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	1580 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA