Radeon RX 470 Mobile: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon RX 470 Mobile provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 18.15% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 470 Mobile sales 4 August 2016 at a recommended price of $549.99 . This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 4.0 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 85 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 470 (Laptop): architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking299
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation9.55
Power efficiency15.42of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameEllesmere
Market segmentLaptop
Release date4 August 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$549.99 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)'s specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)'s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed926 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed1074 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors5,700 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)85 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate137.5of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power4.399 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs128of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelarge
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 470 (Laptop): 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 amount8 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1750 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 470 (Laptop). 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

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon RX 470 (Laptop). You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon RX 470 (Laptop), sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 470 Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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.

RX 470 Mobile 18.15

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.

RX 470 Mobile 10715

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 470 Mobile 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.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 30−33

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 30−35
Battlefield 5 60−65
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 35−40
Cyberpunk 2077 30−33
Far Cry 5 40−45
Far Cry New Dawn 50−55
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
Hitman 3 35−40
Horizon Zero Dawn 90−95
Metro Exodus 65−70
Red Dead Redemption 2 50−55
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 60−65
Watch Dogs: Legion 85−90

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 30−35
Battlefield 5 60−65
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 35−40
Cyberpunk 2077 30−33
Far Cry 5 40−45
Far Cry New Dawn 50−55
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
Hitman 3 35−40
Horizon Zero Dawn 90−95
Metro Exodus 65−70
Red Dead Redemption 2 50−55
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 60−65
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 40−45
Watch Dogs: Legion 85−90

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 30−35
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 35−40
Cyberpunk 2077 30−33
Far Cry 5 40−45
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
Hitman 3 35−40
Horizon Zero Dawn 90−95
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 60−65
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 40−45
Watch Dogs: Legion 85−90

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 50−55

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 35−40
Far Cry New Dawn 27−30

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 16−18
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 21−24
Cyberpunk 2077 10−12
Far Cry 5 21−24
Forza Horizon 4 100−110
Hitman 3 21−24
Horizon Zero Dawn 35−40
Metro Exodus 35−40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 35−40
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 21−24
Watch Dogs: Legion 110−120

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 30−35

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 18−20
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16
Hitman 3 14−16
Horizon Zero Dawn 95−100
Metro Exodus 20−22
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 18−20

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 10−12
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 9−10
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−11
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
Far Cry 5 10−11
Forza Horizon 4 24−27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 21−24
Watch Dogs: Legion 8−9

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 16−18

Closest competitors

Radeon RX 470 Mobile's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 470 Mobile is GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

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