AMD Radeon HD 8470D
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
AMD Radeon HD 8470D
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8470D and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

930
Place in performance rating
986
Terascale 3
Architecture
G9x
Richland
Code name
G96C
Desktop
Type
Laptop
5 June 2013 (8 years ago)
Release date
11 February 2009 (12 years ago)
$30
Price now
$110
0.26
Value for money
0.03
Richland
GPU code name
N10P-GV1
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 8470D and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

128
Pipelines
32
800 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
no data
Transistor count
314 million
32 nm
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
no data
Power consumption (TDP)
14 Watt
10.20
Texture fill rate
8.000
no data
Floating-point performance
80 gflops
128
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
850 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
1,303 million
Number of transistors
314 million
65 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
14 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 8470D and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M.

IGP
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
no data
Laptop size
medium sized

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 8470D and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M can be seen in this section.

System Shared
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
no data
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
no data
Memory bus width
128 Bit
no data
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
no data
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
+
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8470D and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 8470D and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M is the additional functionality.

no data
PCI-E 2.0
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 8470D and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
no data
OpenGL
3.3

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 8470D and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 8470D or NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8470D
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8470D
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8470D
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8470D
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8470D
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8470D

0.51% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($30 vs $110)

More pipelines (128 vs 32)

Finer manufacturing process technology (32 nm vs 55 nm)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

There is no accountable advantage

So, AMD Radeon HD 8470D or NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 8470D .

AMD Radeon HD 8470D versus NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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