Radeon HD 8470D IGP vs Radeon R7 260

Radeon HD 8470D IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2013
Radeon HD 8470D IGP
Radeon R7 260
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Dec 2013
Radeon R7 260

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8470D IGP

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 260

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8470D IGPRadeon R7 260
GPU NameScrapper ()vsBonaire (Bonaire PRO)
Fab Process32 nmvs28 nm
Die Size246 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,303 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders192vs768
Compute Units3vs12
Core clock800 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs12vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8470D IGPRadeon R7 260
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8470D IGPRadeon R7 260
TDP65 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date29 Jul 2013vs17 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8470D IGP
    3.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8470D IGP
    9.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8470D IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8470D IGP
    307.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better