AMD Radeon R9 M470: specs and benchmarks

AMD started Radeon R9 M470 sales 15 May 2016. This is GCN 2.0 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 12.65 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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