AMD Radeon HD 8470 Benchmark and Specs

AMD Radeon HD 8470

Thanks to our GPU Benchmark, we have measured the AMD Radeon HD 8470 as a bad gaming performer a score of 28 points.

The Radeon HD 8470 has 1 GiB of memory. More memory is beneficial when gaming at high resolutions as the memory needs to store the frame buffer and all the game textures. If you run out of memory, you will experience poor performance as the GPU needs to swap data in and out of the memory as it is used.

In terms of clock speed, the Radeon HD 8470 GPU core runs at a frequency of 750 MHz. A clock speed is the frequency at which the GPU updates. A higher speed means more processing can happen per cycle. This is useful only when comparing cards of the same generation, as other architectures may process more or less per clock.

As for rendering API support, the Radeon HD 8470 supports up to DirectX 11. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.4 features are supported. If your GPU is too old and doesn't support a newer API certain titles may not be playable.

This chip has a Thermal Design Power of 35W: the total amount of waste heat generated. A card that runs hotter will need better cooling and will draw more power from the wall.

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