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.

Manufacturer	ATI
Series	Mobility Radeon HD 4000
Codename	M96-XT
Pipelines	320 - unified
Core Speed *	675 MHz
Shader Speed *	675 MHz
Memory Speed *	800 MHz
Memory Bus Width	128 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Max. Amount of Memory
Shared Memory	no
DirectX	DirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
Current Consumption	35 Watt
Transistors	514 Million
technology	55 nm
Features	OpenGL 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 Size	medium sized
Date of Announcement	09.01.2009
Link to Manufacturer Page	http://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
0% 100%
min: 23519, avg: 24975, max: 26431 Points ... More Details

3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 21623, avg: 22295, max: 22967 Points ... More Details

3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 11778, avg: 12614, max: 13449 Points ... More Details

3DMark 06:
0% 100%
min: 6704, avg: 6995, max: 7620 Points ... More Details

Cinebench R10: - Shading
0% 100%
min: 4150, avg: 5002, max: 6722 Points ... More Details

3DMark Vantage: - P Result 1280x1024
0% 100%
min: 2947, avg: 3005, max: 3062 Points ... More Details

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card

- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 17 benchmarks

3DMark 05 in comparison
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 (min)	137
...
NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS	11777
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M	11871
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650	12543
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670	12614
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870	12885
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT SLI	12932
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS	13125
...
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI (max)	19268

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.

CoD Modern Warfare 2 (2009)

low:

119.2 fps

med.:

47.5 fps

high:

38.7 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Risen (2009)

med.:

43.6 fps

high:

31.8 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..

Need for Speed Shift (2009)

med.:

35.4 fps

high:

25.6 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..

Colin McRae: DIRT 2 (2009)

low:

51.5 fps

med.:

43.6 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..

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 (2009)

low:

235 fps

med.:

74 fps

high:

62 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

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.

GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...

Left 4 Dead (2008)

high:

91 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

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 (2008)

low:

48 fps

ultra:

12 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.

Racedriver: GRID (2008): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...

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 (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 (2007)

low:

59.4 fps

med.:

37.9 fps

high:

23.4 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings med.. - more...

Command and Conquer III (2007): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...

Call of Juarez Benchmark (2006): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...

The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion (2006): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

high:

141.9 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Quake 4 (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...

F.E.A.R. (2005)

low:

127 fps

med.:

65 fps

high:

62 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

World of Warcraft (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings med.. - more...

Counter-Strike Source (2004)

high:

130 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Doom 3 (2004)

low:

141.7 fps

ultra:

137.1 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.

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.

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