AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM vs Intel HD Graphics 2500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM and Intel HD Graphics 2500 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Intel HD Graphics 2500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 650 MHz
5.4x more texture fill rate: 6.2 GTexel / s vs 1.15 GTexel / s
26.7x more pipelines: 160 vs 6
18x better floating-point performance: 248.0 gflops vs 13.8 gflops
3.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 785 vs 249

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2013 vs 1 April 2012
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.2 GTexel / s vs 1.15 GTexel / s
Pipelines	160 vs 6
Floating-point performance	248.0 gflops vs 13.8 gflops
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	785 vs 249

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 2500

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 40 nm

Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 2500

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

785

249

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM	Intel HD Graphics 2500
PassMark - G2D Mark	164
PassMark - G3D Mark	248
Geekbench - OpenCL	785	249
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.342
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	121.217
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.14
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	23.947
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM	Intel HD Graphics 2500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Generation 7.0
Code name	Caicos	Ivy Bridge GT1
Launch date	8 January 2013	1 April 2012
Place in performance rating	1595	1710
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	248.0 gflops	13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	22 nm
Pipelines	160	6
Texture fill rate	6.2 GTexel / s	1.15 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	392 million
Boost clock speed		1150 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11.1	11.1 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory		1