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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

The ATI Mobilty Radeon HD 4570 from AMD is a DirectX 10.1 lower-middle-class notebook graphics adapter. Technically it is a faster clocked Mobility Radeon 4530/4330.

AMD specifies a slow 64 Bit memory bus, but some GPU-Z variants state a 128 Bit bus (should be an error).

The gaming performance of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 should be very similar to the desktop HD 4550 which features similar specifications. Benchmarks of the desktop card showed, that the most DirectX9 titles can be played fluently in high details and 1024x768 (like Call of Duty 4, F.E.A.R., UT3, World in Conflict). Demanding games like crysis only run in low-medium detail settings in decent frame rates.

The Mobility HD 4570 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 4570 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.

The Mobility Radeon HD 4570 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 12-15 Watt for the HD 4570. 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 4550, the mobile 4570 features a higher core clock (680 versus 600) and therefore performs a bit better than the desktop 4650 (if the notebook manufacturer uses GDDR3 memory).

ManufacturerATI
SeriesMobility Radeon HD 4000
CodenameM92-XT
Pipelines80 - unified
Core Speed *680 MHz
Shader Speed *680 MHz
Memory Speed *800 MHz
Memory Bus Width64 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Max. Amount of Memory
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: 11199, avg: 16422, max: 22883 Points
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3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 7851, avg: 10128, max: 11627 Points
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3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 5638, avg: 7062, max: 8017 Points
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3DMark 06:
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      min: 2654, avg: 3656, max: 4593 Points
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Cinebench R10: - Shading
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      min: 2486, avg: 3309, max: 3990 Points
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3DMark Vantage: - P Result 1280x1024
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      min: 1142, avg: 1157, max: 1168 Points
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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 40 benchmarks

Game Benchmarks

Anno 1404
Anno 1404 (2009)
low:
96.5  fps
ultra:
11  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Sims 3
Sims 3 (2009)
low:
232.8  fps
med.:
59.1  fps
high:
32.1  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
F.E.A.R. 2
F.E.A.R. 2 (2009)
low:
58.2 89.3 117.4 124.8 ~ 97 fps
med.:
30.8 35.2 36.5 43.6 ~ 37 fps
high:
22.4  fps
» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead (2008)
low:
94.3  fps
high:
48.3  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Racedriver: GRID
Racedriver: GRID (2008)
low:
63.4 64.8 71.9 77.7 ~ 69 fps
med.:
28.4 34.4 34.5 35 ~ 33 fps
high:
18.5  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare
Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)
low:
63.4 103.8 170.5 ~ 113 fps
med.:
28.4 36.7 43.6 ~ 36 fps
high:
30.2  fps
» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Supreme Commander - FA Bench
Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)
med.:
18.5  fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
Crysis - GPU Benchmark
Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
29.4 42.3 ~ 36 fps
med.:
21.1 22.7 ~ 22 fps
high:
11.9  fps
» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Crysis - CPU Benchmark
Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
33.2 41.4 ~ 37 fps
med.:
17.2 19.4 ~ 18 fps
high:
9.4  fps
» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
World in Conflict - Benchmark
World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)
med.:
22  fps
high:
10  fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
Call of Juarez Benchmark
Call of Juarez Benchmark (2006)
high:
12.9  fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. (2005)
low:
144 171 ~ 158 fps
med.:
66 68 ~ 67 fps
high:
23 35 ~ 29 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft (2005)
low:
121.5 185 209.7 ~ 172 fps
med.:
47.2 52 57.5 ~ 52 fps
high:
13.3 14 ~ 14 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Counter-Strike Source
Counter-Strike Source (2004)
high:
140  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Doom 3
Doom 3 (2004)
low:
62  fps
med.:
55  fps
ultra:
45  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)
high:
250 325.9 ~ 288 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List

Gaming Performance

The following benchmarks stem from a desktop HD 4550 (has a slower core clock than the mobile HD 4570) in conjunction with a C2D E8500 (a bit faster than the Core 2 Extreme X9100) and should therefore be similar.

Crysis: 1024x768, Medium: 23 fps -> not really playable (playable with low details)
World in Conflict: 1024x768, Medium DX9: 40 fps -> fluently playable
Stalker Clear Sky: 1024x768, Medium: 30 fps -> playable
Far Cry 2: 1024x768, high DX9: 25 -> more or less playable (better swith to medium details)
Race Driver Grid: 1024x768, Medium: 40 fps -> fluently playable

Benchmarks by AMD

AMD published some benchmarks at the launch of the Mobilty Radeon HD 4000 Series with relative benchmarks of the HD 4570 versus the HD 3470. Sadly the settings of 1600x1200, 4x AA, 8x AF are too high to result in playable framerates. Therefore the following chart is only of limited use.

Still AMD also included the increase in 3DMark06 points (1.65x) and therefore one can conclude that the Mobility Radeon HD 4570 should score about 3200 points which would put her in place of the old HD 2600.

Relative performance of the HD 4570 to the HD 3470 in unplayable settings.
Relative performance of the HD 4570 to the HD 3470 in unplayable settings.

Notebook reviews with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card

Acer Aspire 5536G (AMD Athlon X2 QL-64, 15.6")
» Review Acer Aspire 5536G Notebook - Review
» Acer Aspire 5536G - External Review

Acer Aspire 7535G-824G50Mn (AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-82, 17.3")
» Acer Aspire 7535G-824G50Mn - External Review

Asus K50AB (AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-84, 15.6")
» Asus K50AB - External Review

Asus K70AB (AMD Turion X2 RM-74, 17.3")
» Asus K70AB - External Review

Asus U80V (Intel Core 2 Duo T9550, 14.0")
» Asus U80V - External Review

Dell Studio 1555 (Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, 15.6")
» Review Dell Studio 1555 Notebook - Review
» Dell Studio 1555 - External Review

Packard Bell EasyNote LJ65 (Intel Pentium Dual Core T4200, 17.3")
» Packard Bell EasyNote LJ65 - External Review

Sony Vaio VGN-NW11S/S (Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, 15.5")
» Review Sony Vaio VGN-NW11 Notebook - Review
» Sony Vaio VGN-NW11S/S - External Review

Sony Vaio VGN-NW11Z/S (Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, 15.5")
» Sony Vaio VGN-NW11Z/S - External Review

Sony Vaio VGN-NW160J (Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, 15.5")
» Sony Vaio VGN-NW160J - External Review

Sony Vaio VGN-NW180J/S (Intel Core 2 Duo P7350, 15.5")
» Sony Vaio VGN-NW180J/S - External Review

Sony Vaio VGN-SR41M/S (Intel Core 2 Duo T6400, 13.3")
» Review Sony Vaio SR41M/S Notebook - Review
» Sony Vaio VGN-SR41M/S - External Review

Sony Vaio VGN-SR420J/B (Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, 13.3")
» Sony Vaio VGN-SR420J/B - External Review

Toshiba Satellite L500-128 (Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, 15.6")
» Toshiba Satellite L500-128 - External Review

Toshiba Satellite L550D-10G (AMD Athlon X2 QL-65, 17.3")
» Toshiba Satellite L550D-10G - External Review

Toshiba Satellite P300-24Z (Intel Core 2 Duo T6400, 17.0")
» Toshiba Satellite P300-24Z - External Review

Toshiba Satellite U500-115 (Intel Core 2 Duo P8700, 13.3")
» Review Toshiba Satellite U500-115 Notebook - Review
» Toshiba Satellite U500-115 - External Review

Toshiba Satellite U500-11C (Intel Core 2 Duo P7350, 13.3")
» Toshiba Satellite U500-11C - External Review

 

Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2009-09-24)