Radeon HD 6450A vs Radeon HD 7470M

Radeon HD 6450A
Memory: 512Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450A
Radeon HD 7470M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 7 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7470M

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6450A

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7470M

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7470M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7470M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6450ARadeon HD 7470M
GPU NameCaicos ()vsSeymour (Seymour XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors370 millionvs370 million
Shaders160vs160
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock625 MHzvs750 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6450ARadeon HD 7470M
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed533 MHz
1066 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6450ARadeon HD 7470M
TDP25 wattsvs7 watts
Release Date7 Apr 2011vs7 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6450A
    2.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7470M
    3.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6450A
    5.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7470M
    6.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6450A
    8.53 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7470M
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6450A
    200.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7470M
    240.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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