NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 8470 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 35 Watt

Launch date	17 February 2013 vs 8 January 2013
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 35 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Around 26% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 615 MHz
Around 32% higher texture fill rate: 6.2 GTexel / s vs 4.712 GTexel / s
10x more pipelines: 160 vs 16
5.5x better floating-point performance: 248.0 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1400 MHz
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 168 vs 66
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 251 vs 118

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 615 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.2 GTexel / s vs 4.712 GTexel / s
Pipelines	160 vs 16
Floating-point performance	248.0 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	168 vs 66
PassMark - G3D Mark	251 vs 118

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

168

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

118

251

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark	66	168
PassMark - G3D Mark	118	251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1079
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1079
Geekbench - OpenCL		785
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GT216	Caicos
Launch date	17 February 2013	8 January 2013
Place in performance rating	1584	1585
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	615 MHz	775 MHz
Floating-point performance	44.86 gflops	248.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	16	160
Texture fill rate	4.712 GTexel / s	6.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	370 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 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	11.1
OpenGL	3.3	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	3200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5