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AMD Radeon R9 M470: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 M470 sales 15 May 2016. This is GCN 2.0 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 13.32 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

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

General info

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

Place in performance rating

267

Architecture

GCN 2.0

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 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

900 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

of 1771 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)

Transistor count

2,080 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 12

Texture fill rate

48.00

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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 specs

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 32

Memory bus width

128 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

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

Video card benchmarks 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

13.11

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

24365.00

3DMark Fire Strike Score

3415.00

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

3655.00

Passmark

2117

Relative perfomance

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

102.36 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

101.83 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

101.3 %

AMD Radeon R7 250X

100 %

AMD Radeon R9 M470

99.39 %

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

99.31 %

NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M SLI

99.08 %

AMD Radeon R9 M375X

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 M470 from NVIDIA is GeForce GT 755M SLI, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our rating.