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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330

The ATI Mobilty Radeon HD 4330 from AMD is a DirectX 10.1 lower-class notebook graphics adapter. Technically it is a lower clocked Mobility HD 4530.

The gaming performance of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330 lies beyond the HD 4350. Still older DirectX 9 games should be playable in medium settings. The performance may not be sufficient for demanding games like GTA 4 or Crysis.

The Mobility HD 4330 is based on the RV710 chip and features 80 stream processors (16 5-dimensional shader cores). These cores do the graphic work of the shader- and Pixel pipelines of older GPUs. The stream processors are also called ALUs and are grouped in five-way VLIW units. Each of the five instructions of a VLIW bundle has to be independent from the others and therefore the performance depends on the optimization of the driver.

A speciality of the Radeon HD 4330 is the possibility to use ordinary DDR2 and DDR3 graphic memory (as a cheaper alternative to GDDR3). However, cards that use that kind of memory will be slower than others equipped with GDDR RAM (because of the different bandwidth 16 versus 32 bit).

The Mobility Radeon HD 4330 includes the Avivo HD called video technology including an onboard soundchip for 7.1 sound output over HDMI or DisplayPort and the 2nd generation UVD (Unified Video Decoder). This UVD 2 supports full bitstream decoding of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and VC-1 streams. In addition to this, it also supports dual video stream decoding and Picture-in Picture mode which makes the UVD full BD-Live compliant. Simplified, the Avivo HD technology handles all video tasks and enables the GPU to decode HD videos.

AMD published a current consumtion of about 7 Watt for the HD 4330. Still it is unclear if this value represents the chip alone or the whole mxm board including the memory (which would include about 5 Watt).

Compared to the desktop ATI Radeon HD 4350, the mobile 4330 features a slower core clock. Therefore, the performance should be lower than the desktop counterpart.

ManufacturerATI
Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series

Mobility Radeon HD 4330 80@450MHz

CodenameM92-SE
Pipelines80 - unified
Core Speed *450 MHz
Shader Speed *450 MHz
Memory Speed *600 MHz
Memory Bus Width64 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Max. Amount of Memory512 MB
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
Transistors242 Million
technology55 nm
FeaturesOpenGL 2.0, PCI-E 2.0 x16, Powerplay, DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600, HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio), 1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI, 1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
Notebook Sizesmall and light
Date of Announcement09.01.2009
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://ati.amd.com/products/mobilityrade...
* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

Benchmarks

3DMark 2001 - Standard 1024x768
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min: 10993     avg: 13757 (31%)     max: 15310 Points
3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768
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min: 6940     avg: 7498 (13%)     max: 8201 Points
3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768
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min: 3491     avg: 5113 (21%)     max: 5857 Points
3DMark 06
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min: 2220     avg: 2599 (14%)     max: 3185 Points
PCMark Vantage - Gaming Score 1024x768
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min: 2222     avg: 2438 (19%)     max: 2653 Points
Windows Vista Experience Index - GPU
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min: 5.9     avg: 6 (87%)     max: 5.9 Points
Windows Vista Experience Index - GPU Games
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min: 4.8     avg: 5 (71%)     max: 4.8 Points
Cinebench R10 - Shading 32Bit
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min: 2102     avg: 3066 (39%)     max: 3683 Points
Windows 7 Experience Index - Graphics
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min: 4.4     avg: 4 (60%)     max: 4.5 points
Windows 7 Experience Index - Gaming graphics
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min: 5.9     avg: 6 (81%)     max: 5.9 points
Cinebench R11.5 - OpenGL 64Bit
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min: 3.99     avg: 4 (11%)     max: 3.99 Points
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Risen
Risen (2009)
low:
37.5  fps      Compare
med.:
13.8  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Need for Speed Shift
Need for Speed Shift (2009)
low:
27.5  fps      Compare
med.:
13.8  fps      Compare
» With most tested laptops not playable.
Colin McRae: DIRT 2
Colin McRae: DIRT 2 (2009)
low:
36.7  fps      Compare
med.:
23.2  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Anno 1404
Anno 1404 (2009)
low:
60.1  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Sims 3
Sims 3 (2009)
low:
149.8  fps      Compare
med.:
40.6  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
F.E.A.R. 2 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Crysis - GPU Benchmark
Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
30.7  fps      Compare
med.:
17 21 ~ 19 fps      Compare
high:
9.6  fps      Compare
» With most tested laptops not playable.
Crysis - CPU Benchmark
Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
28.1  fps      Compare
med.:
14.3  fps      Compare
high:
7.9  fps      Compare
» With most tested laptops not playable.
World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. (2005)
low:
228  fps      Compare
med.:
70  fps      Compare
high:
23  fps      Compare