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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

The ATI Mobilty Radon HD 4670 from AMD is a DirectX 10.1 middle-class notebook graphics adapter. Technically it is a higher clocked Mobility Radeon HD 4650.

The gaming performance of the GPU lies between the desktop HD 4650 and 4670. Therefore, most DirectX 9 games (like Call of Duty 4, F.E.A.R., or Unreal Tournament 3) should be playable in high details (in 1024x768). Demanding DX10 games from 2008 like Crysis run only in medium details fluently.

The Mobility HD 4670 is based on the RV730 chip and features 320 stream processors (64 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 4600 Series 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 4670 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 28-30 Watt for the HD 4670. 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). Nevertheless, the battery runtime should be compareable to a laptop with GeForce 9600M GT / GT 130M graphics adapter.

Compared to the desktop ATI Radeon HD 4670, the mobile counterpart features a slower chip and memory clock (675/800 versus 775/900-1000) and therefore performs somewhere between a desktop 4650 and 4670.

ManufacturerATI
SeriesMobility Radeon HD 4000
CodenameM96-XT
Pipelines320 - unified
Core Speed *675 MHz
Shader Speed *675 MHz
Memory Speed *800 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Max. Amount of Memory
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
Current Consumption35 Watt
Transistors514 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 Sizemedium sized
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: 23519, avg: 24975, max: 26431 Points
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3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 21623, avg: 22295, max: 22967 Points
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3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 11778, avg: 12614, max: 13449 Points
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3DMark 06:
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      min: 6704, avg: 6995, max: 7620 Points
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Cinebench R10: - Shading
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      min: 4150, avg: 5002, max: 6722 Points
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3DMark Vantage: - P Result 1280x1024
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      min: 2947, avg: 3005, max: 3062 Points
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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 17 benchmarks

Game Benchmarks

Anno 1404
Anno 1404 (2009)
low:
77 86.9 ~ 82 fps
ultra:
19 24.9 ~ 22 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Sims 3
Sims 3 (2009)
low:
235  fps
med.:
74  fps
high:
62  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
F.E.A.R. 2
F.E.A.R. 2 (2009)
low:
104.2 118.7 ~ 111 fps
med.:
62.4 78.8 ~ 71 fps
high:
51.6 52.3 ~ 52 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead (2008)
high:
91  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 (2008)
low:
77.3 90.5 ~ 84 fps
high:
36.2 41.5 ~ 39 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Crysis Warhead
Crysis Warhead (2008)
low:
48  fps
ultra:
12  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Supreme Commander - FA Bench
Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)
low:
48  fps
med.:
35.7  fps
high:
29.5  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Crysis - GPU Benchmark
Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
52.5 55.5 ~ 54 fps
med.:
30.8 41.2 ~ 36 fps
high:
26 29.5 ~ 28 fps
» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Crysis - CPU Benchmark
Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
59.4  fps
med.:
37.9  fps
high:
23.4  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark
Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)
high:
141.9  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. (2005)
low:
127  fps
med.:
65  fps
high:
62  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Counter-Strike Source
Counter-Strike Source (2004)
high:
130  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Doom 3
Doom 3 (2004)
low:
141.7  fps
ultra:
137.1  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)
high:
639.7  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

Benchmarks by AMD

AMD published on the launch date of the HD 4000 series a document with relative benchmark values (HD 4670 to HD 3670). The benchmarks were conducted with a fast desktop Quad-Core CPU and unplayable setting of 1600x1200 with 4x Antialiasing and 16xAF. Therefore the following graph is only of limited use and shows only the improvements in some aspects over the predecessor.

Still there is also a graph with the 3DMark06 score. As the HD 3670 was announced with about 4700 3DMark06 points, the 4670 should score about 7000 points in 3DMark06 (1.5x performance according to the slide). Therefore, the performance would be on par with the old HD 3850.

Relative performance of the HD 4670 to HD 3670 in unplayable settings of 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF.
Relative performance of the HD 4670 to HD 3670 in unplayable settings of 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF.

Notebook reviews with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 graphics card

Acer Aspire 8935G (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000, 18.4")
» Review Acer Aspire 8935G Notebook - Review
» Acer Aspire 8935G - External Review

Dell Studio XPS 16 (4670) (Intel Core 2 Duo P9700, 16")
» Review Dell Studio XPS 16 (ATI HD4670) Notebook - Review
» Dell Studio XPS 16 (4670) - External Review

HawkForce ViDock 2 ( , ")
» HawkForce ViDock 2 - External Review

MSI EX625 (Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, 16")
» Review MSI EX625 Notebook - Review
» MSI EX625 - External Review

MSI GX623 (Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, 15.4")
» MSI GX623 - External Review

 

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