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AMD Radeon R9 M470: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 M470 sales 15 May 2016. This is GCN 2 architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 96 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 11.40 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.

General info Technical specs Memory Technologies Benchmarks Gaming NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon R9 M470's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

217

Architecture

GCN 2

Code name

Strato

Type

Laptop

Release date

15 May 2016

Technical specs

Radeon R9 M470's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 M470's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

768

of 8192 (Radeon RX Vega 64)

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

of 1630 (Radeon RX Vega 64)

Transistor count

2,080 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Texture fill rate

48 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

Floating-point performance

1,536 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 M470's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 M470: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

of 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

128 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

96 GB / s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 M470.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 M470. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

DirectCompute 5.0

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 M470, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12 FL11_1

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

Video card benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 M470. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

11.40

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

24365

3DMark Fire Strike Score

3415

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

3655

Passmark

R9 M470

minimum Radeon HD 2400

recommended Radeon HD 5870

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R9 M470 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 M470

98.95 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

98.77 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX

98.51 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 M470 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 870M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our rating.