AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 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 - 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
3.3x more pipelines: 160 vs 48
Around 59% better floating-point performance: 248.0 gflops vs 155.5 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1796 MHz

Launch date	8 January 2013 vs 2 April 2012
Pipelines	160 vs 48
Floating-point performance	248.0 gflops vs 155.5 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 1796 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 775 MHz
Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 6.48 GTexel / s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 35 Watt
Around 18% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 2.756 vs 2.342

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.756 vs 2.342

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2.342

2.756

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark	164
PassMark - G3D Mark	248
Geekbench - OpenCL	785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.342	2.756
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	121.217
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.275	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.14
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	23.947
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		637
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		637
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1148
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1364
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1364

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Caicos	GF119
Launch date	8 January 2013	2 April 2012
Place in performance rating	1595	1597
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	810 MHz
Floating-point performance	248.0 gflops	155.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	160	48
Texture fill rate	6.2 GTexel / s	6.48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	292 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	11.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	14.37 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz	1796 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3