AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 470 Mobile sales 4 August 2016 at a recommended price of $549.99. This is Polaris architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.

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

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 39.79 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

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

General info

Of Radeon RX 470 Mobile's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Perfomance to price

53.62

Architecture

Polaris

Code name

Ellesmere

Type

Laptop

Release date

4 August 2016

Launch price (MSRP)

$549.99

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$310

of 4095.95 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

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

Pipelines

2048

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

926 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

of 2025 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Transistor count

5,700 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

85 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

137.5

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

4,399 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon RX 470 Mobile'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

MXM-B (3.0)

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 470 Mobile: 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

8 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 470 Mobile.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Technologies

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

FreeSync

DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready

HDMI 2.0b

API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX 470 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon RX 470 Mobile performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

119.93 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M SLI

107.69 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

100.28 %

AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile

100 %

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

99.52 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M SLI

94.5 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

93.44 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX 470 Mobile from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 880M SLI, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.