Radeon HD 4650 vs Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Radeon HD 4650
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4650
Radeon HD 8470 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4650

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8470 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 4650

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4650

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4650Radeon HD 8470 OEM
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 PRO)vsCaicos (Caicos XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs370 million
Shaders320vs160
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs32vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4650Radeon HD 8470 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4650Radeon HD 8470 OEM
TDP48 wattsvs35 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2008vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4650
    4.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    3.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4650
    19.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    6.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4650
    22.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4650
    384.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    248.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better