Apple A12Z Bionic vs AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Comparative analysis of Apple A12Z Bionic and AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 750 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm
  • 12.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10076 vs 791
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 Mar 2020 vs 5 January 2012
Core clock speed 1125 MHz vs 750 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 10076 vs 791

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

  • 20x more pipelines: 160 vs 8
Pipelines 160 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
10076
791
Name Apple A12Z Bionic AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL 10076 791
PassMark - G3D Mark 289
PassMark - G2D Mark 152
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)

Apple A12Z Bionic AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Essentials

Launch date 25 Mar 2020 5 January 2012
Place in performance rating 1495 1498
Architecture TeraScale 2
Code name Caicos
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1125 MHz 750 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1.152 TFLOPS
Pipelines 8 160
Render output units 32
Floating-point performance 240.0 gflops
Texture fill rate 6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 27 Watt
Transistor count 370 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 68.2 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 Bit
Memory type LPDDR4X-4266 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4