AMD Radeon HD 8470D vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8470D and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon HD 8470D

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8470D

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 650 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	5 June 2013 vs 11 October 2010
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

2.6x more pipelines: 336 vs 128
2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3712 vs 1704
2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3712 vs 1704
Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 3149
Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 3149

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	336 vs 128
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3712 vs 1704
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3712 vs 1704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353 vs 3149
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353 vs 3149

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8470D
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1704

3712

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1704

3712

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3149

3353

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3149

3353

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8470D	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	1053
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	638
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	638
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1704	3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1704	3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3149	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3149	3353
PassMark - G2D Mark	150
PassMark - G3D Mark	377
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		22.202
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		661.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		76.736

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8470D	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 3	Fermi
Code name	Richland	GF104
Launch date	5 June 2013	11 October 2010
Place in performance rating	1321	1061
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	128	336
Floating-point performance		873.6 gflops
Texture fill rate		36.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		150 Watt
Transistor count		1,950 million
API support
DirectX	11	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		108.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		3400 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		210 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin