AMD Radeon HD 7470M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7470M and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 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 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7470M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 25% higher pipelines: 160 vs 128
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
• 21.4x lower typical power consumption: 7 Watt vs 150 Watt
• Around 64% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1100 MHz
• 6.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 393 vs 59

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

• 2.4x more core clock speed: 1836 MHz vs 750 MHz
• 7.9x more texture fill rate: 47.2 billion / sec vs 6 GTexel / s
• Around 61% better floating-point performance: 387.1 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
• Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 601 vs 408
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3351 vs 3074
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3351 vs 3074
• 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3108 vs 1422
• 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3108 vs 1422

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7470M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	408 601
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	393 59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3074 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3074 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1422 3108
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1422 3108

Compare specifications (specs)