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AMD Radeon HD 8470D

AMD Radeon HD 8470D

The AMD Radeon HD 8470D is a processor graphics card featured in the desktop Richland A6 series of APUs from AMD and is based on the VLIW4 architecture of the Radeon HD 6900 desktop series. Compared to the faster HD 8670D, the 8470 features only 128 of the 384 cores clocked at 800 MHz compared to 844 MHz of the 8670D. The graphics card does not offer dedicated video memory and thus depends on the speed and size of the system memory.

The performance of the Radeon HD 8470D differs depending on the benchmark. In synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark 11, final scores suggest better gaming performance when in practice the frame rates are slightly lower. In our gaming tests the HD 8470D was similar to the Trinity Radeon HD 7660G in the mobile A10-4600M and comparable to the average HD Graphics 4000 on Ivy Bridge chips. Therefore, very demanding games like Company of Heroes 2 will not run fluently on the APU (see below for detailed benchmarks).

The integrated UVD3 video decoder (Avivo HD) allows full decoding of Multi-View Codec (MVC), MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX, xVid), MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and Adobe Flash HD videos.

The shader cores of the chip can also be used for general computing via OpenCL or DirectCompute 11.

Radeon HD 8000D Series

Radeon HD 8670D compare 384 @ 0.84 GHz
Radeon HD 8570D compare 256 @ 0.84 GHz
Radeon HD 8470D 128 @ 0.8 GHz
CodenameRichland
ArchitectureTerascale 3
Pipelines128 - unified
Core Speed800 MHz
Shared Memoryyes
APIDirectX 11, Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.2
technology32 nm
Date of Announcement05.06.2013
CPU in Radeon HD 8470DGPU Base SpeedGPU Boost / Turbo
AMD A6-6400K2 x 3900 MHz, 65 W800 MHz? MHz

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy
0.3 pt (1%)
3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +
Cinebench R15
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit +
Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit +
GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 +
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
red legend - Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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 detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Thief

Thief

2014
low 1024x768
16.4  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
low 1024x768
35.2  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
24.6  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
16.5  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
5.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
low 1024x768
53  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
32  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
17  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
7  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
low 1024x768
36.6  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
29  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
20.8  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
4.1  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
low 1280x720
24.7  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
18.6  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
12.5  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
low 1024x768
31  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
20.5  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
9  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
Dota 2

Dota 2

2013
low 1024x768
55  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
36.2  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
16.4  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
low 1024x768
15.6  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
12.6  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
6.7  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
3.4  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
GRID 2

GRID 2

2013
low 1024x768
62.6  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
37.7  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
28.8  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
12.5  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
low 1024x768
23  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
18.8  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
9.2  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
4.7  fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
low 1280x720
55.1  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
25.8  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
21.9  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
6.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
SimCity

SimCity

2013
low 1024x768
55  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
20.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
low 1024x768
62.6  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
30  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
19.1  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
7.6  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
low 1024x768
73  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
41.3  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
18.9  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
11.9  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Fifa 13

Fifa 13

2012
high 1366x768
90  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
50  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
low 1024x768
79  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
50  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
42  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
27  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.