AMD Radeon R9 M470: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 M470 sales 14 May 2016. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 2 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is 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 6.01% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon R9 M470: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking548
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2 (2016)
GPU code nameSaturn
Market segmentLaptop
Release date14 May 2016 (7 years old)

Technical specs

Radeon R9 M470's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base 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 / CUDA cores768of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed1000 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1000 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors2,080 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Texture fill rate48.00of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance1,536 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

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 sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 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 have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed6000 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth96 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 M470. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.3
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 M470. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

R9 M470 2330

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

R9 M470 3655

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

R9 M470 24365

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon R9 M470 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 10−11

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 5−6
Battlefield 5 18−20
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 18−20
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
Far Cry 5 12−14
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16
Forza Horizon 4 20−22
Hitman 3 14−16
Horizon Zero Dawn 10−12
Red Dead Redemption 2 10−12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
Watch Dogs: Legion 8−9

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 5−6
Battlefield 5 18−20
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 18−20
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
Far Cry 5 12−14
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16
Forza Horizon 4 20−22
Hitman 3 14−16
Horizon Zero Dawn 10−12
Metro Exodus 8−9
Red Dead Redemption 2 10−12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion 8−9

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 5−6
Battlefield 5 18−20
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
Far Cry 5 12−14
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16
Forza Horizon 4 20−22
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion 8−9

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10
Hitman 3 10−11
Horizon Zero Dawn 10−12
Metro Exodus 4−5
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 8−9

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Battlefield 5 4−5
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Far Cry 5 9−10
Far Cry New Dawn 7−8
Forza Horizon 4 9−10
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 5−6
Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
Hitman 3 6−7
Horizon Zero Dawn 7−8
Metro Exodus 0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
Battlefield 5 1−2
Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Far Cry 5 5−6
Far Cry New Dawn 8−9
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R9 M470 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R9 M470 is GeForce GTX 485M, which is faster by 1% and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

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