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AMD Radeon HD 7470M vs AMD Radeon HD 7430M

AMD Radeon HD 7470M

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The AMD Radeon HD 7470M (sometimes also still called ATI Mobility Radeon HD 7470) is a laptop graphics card for entry level to middle class notebooks. It is based on the old 40nm Seymore-XT chip and therefore just a renamed version of the Radeon HD 6490M. According to rumors there can be DDR3 and GDDR5 versions with different clock speeds. In our tests we also found a model with DDR3 that clocked only with 667MHz (Asus X54HR) and is therefore slower than the 6490M.

The 160 Stream processors are still based on the "old" 5D architecture similar to the 5000 series. Therefore, the number of shaders is not comparable to the 1D cores of current Nvidia GPUs. The Stream processors can be used with DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1, DirectCompute 11 and OpenCL. With the later two the cores can also be used for general computations like transcoding videos.

The performance  of the higher clocked GDDR5 version is about on a level of the Mobility Radeon HD 550v / GeForce GT 325M. Therefore, the card is positioned in the low end and allows to play current games in low detail and resolution settings. In our tests with a similar Radeon HD 6490M in a 15" MBP, games like Starcraft 2 or Mafia 2 reached about 30fps in medium detail settings with a resolution of 1024x768. Less demanding and older games like Trackmania also ran in high details and resolution settings. However, Battlefield 3 may not run at all and demanding games like Dirt 3 will only be playable in low settings.

The new UVD3 video decoder supports the decoding of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, Flash and now also Multi-View Codec (MVC) and MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid) HD videos on the graphics card.

Furthermore, the HD 7400M series integrates a HD audio controller to transmit HD Audio (TrueHD or DTS Master Audio) over HDMI and DisplayPort (e.g. for Blu-Ray videos).

The AMD HD3D Technology offers support for Blu-Ray 3D and 3D displays (integrated and external). However, the solution is not as mature as Nvidias 3D Vision.

Thanks to Eyefinity the graphics chip is able to theoretically drive up to 4 monitors simultaneously. However, this only works if the laptop features enough DisplayPort outputs.

The power consumption of the chip should be similar to the Mobility Radeon HD 5470 and therefore suited for 13" laptops and up.

AMD Radeon HD 7430M

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The AMD Radeon HD 7430M (sometimes also still called ATI Mobility Radeon HD 7430) is a laptop graphics card for entry level class notebooks. It is based on the same Seymore chip as th 6400M series and therfore should be just a renamed Radeon HD 6450M (see for benchmarks)

The 120 Stream processors are still based on the "old" 5D architecture similar to the 5000 series. Therefore, the number of shaders is not comparable to the 1D cores of current Nvidia GPUs. The Tessellation performance should be improved (like the desktop 6800 series) with the new cards. The Stream processors can be used with DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1, DirectCompute 11 and OpenCL. With the later two the cores can also be used for general computations like transcoding videos.

The performance should be similar to the HD 6450M and therefore modern games like Anno 2070 may only run in low detail settings.

The new UVD3 video decoder supports the decoding of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, Flash and now also Multi-View Codec (MVC) and MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid) HD videos on the graphics card.

Furthermore, the HD 7400M/6400M series integrates a HD audio controller to transmit HD Audio (TrueHD or DTS Master Audio) over HDMI and DisplayPort (e.g. for Blu-Ray videos).

The AMD HD3D Technology offers support for Blu-Ray 3D and 3D displays (integrated and external). However, the solution is not as mature as Nvidias 3D Vision.

Thanks to Eyefinity the graphics chip is able to theoretically drive up to 4 monitors simultaneously. However, this only works if the laptop features enough DisplayPort outputs.

The power consumption of the chip should be similar to the Mobility Radeon HD 5450 and therefore suited for 13" laptops and up.

AMD Radeon HD 7470MAMD Radeon HD 7430M
Radeon HD 7400M Series
Radeon HD 7490M compare 160 @ 0.8 GHz64 Bit @ 3800 MHz
Radeon HD 7470M 160 @ 0.75 GHz64 Bit @ 3200 / 1800 MHz
Radeon HD 7450M compare 160 @ 0.7 GHz64 Bit @ 1800 MHz
Radeon HD 7430M 160 @ 0.6 GHz64 Bit @ 1800 MHz
Radeon HD 7490M compare 160 @ 0.8 GHz64 Bit @ 3800 MHz
Radeon HD 7470M 160 @ 0.75 GHz64 Bit @ 3200 / 1800 MHz
Radeon HD 7450M compare 160 @ 0.7 GHz64 Bit @ 1800 MHz
Radeon HD 7430M 160 @ 0.6 GHz64 Bit @ 1800 MHz
CodenameSeymour XT / XTXSeymour-PRO
ArchitectureTerascale 2Terascale 2
Pipelines160 - unified160 - unified
Core Speed750 / 800 MHz600 MHz
Memory Speed3200 / 1800 MHz1800 MHz
Memory Bus Width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory TypeDDR3/GDDR5DDR3
Max. Amount of Memory512 MB
Shared Memorynono
APIDirectX 11, Shader 5.0DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
technology40 nm40 nm
Date of Announcement07.12.2011 09.01.2012

Benchmarks

3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
min: 565     avg: 566     median: 566 (1%)     max: 567 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
min: 498     avg: 522     median: 522 (0%)     max: 546 Points
3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total + AMD Radeon HD 7470M
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
min: 1711     avg: 1740     median: 1739.5 (1%)     max: 1768 Points
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + AMD Radeon HD 7470M
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
min: 1361     avg: 1516     median: 1515.5 (1%)     max: 1670 Points
3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
10149 Points (5%)
3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
min: 6117     avg: 6555     median: 6555 (7%)     max: 6993 Points
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + AMD Radeon HD 7470M
3DMark 06
min: 3537     avg: 3625     median: 3624.5 (5%)     max: 3712 Points
Unigine Heaven 2.1 - Heaven 2.1 high
5.4 fps (1%)
Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Gaming graphics
6.2 Points (78%)
Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Graphics
4.7 Points (59%)
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + AMD Radeon HD 7470M
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
min: 2258     avg: 3774     median: 3773.5 (3%)     max: 5289 Points
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit + AMD Radeon HD 7470M
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 14.5     avg: 15     median: 15 (5%)     max: 15.57 fps
LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Room GPU
46 Samples/s (0%)
LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Sala GPU
92 Samples/s (0%)
ComputeMark v2.1 - ComputeMark v2.1 Result
390 Points (0%)

Average Benchmarks AMD Radeon HD 7470M → 0% n=

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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.

Fifa 13

Fifa 13

2012
low 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
16.6  fps
F1 2012

F1 2012

2012
low 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
12  fps
Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republic

2011
low 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
50.9  fps
high 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
17.5  fps
Anno 2070

Anno 2070

2011
low 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
41.7 43.9 ~ 43 fps
med. 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
14.9 17.2 ~ 16 fps
high 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
9.6 11.4 ~ 11 fps
low 1280x720
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
20.6 27.9 ~ 24 fps
med. 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
15.3 18 ~ 17 fps
high 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
11.3  fps
low 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
100.7  fps
med. 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
36.7  fps
high 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
18.2  fps
low 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
18.4  fps
med. 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
11.9  fps
high 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
9.1  fps
Fifa 12

Fifa 12

2011
low 800x600
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
156.3  fps
med. 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
76.4  fps
high 1360x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
45  fps
F1 2011

F1 2011

2011
low 800x600
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
64  fps
med. 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
33  fps
high 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
18  fps
low 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
48.7  fps
high 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
16.5  fps
Dirt 3

Dirt 3

2011
low 800x600
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
95.9  fps
med. 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
35  fps
high 1360x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
20.9  fps
Crysis 2

Crysis 2

2011
low 800x600
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
22.5  fps
med. 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
15.3  fps
high 1366x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
11.1  fps
low 800x600
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
63.2  fps
med. 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
33.6  fps
high 1360x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
25  fps
Mafia 2

Mafia 2

2010
low 800x600
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
32.4  fps
med. 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
24.7  fps
high 1360x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
20.2  fps
low 1024x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
128.4  fps
med. 1360x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
22.4  fps
high 1360x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
12.3  fps
low 800x600
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
26.6  fps
med. 1360x768
100%
Radeon HD 7470M:
13.3  fps

Average Gaming AMD Radeon HD 7470M → 100%

Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 100%

AMD Radeon HD 7470Mlowmed.highultraQHD4K
Fifa 1316.6
F1 201212
Star Wars: The Old Republic50.917.5
Anno 2070431611
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim241711.3
CoD: Modern Warfare 3100.736.718.2
Battlefield 318.411.99.1
Fifa 12156.376.445
F1 2011643318
Deus Ex Human Revolution48.716.5
Dirt 395.93520.9
Crysis 222.515.311.1
Call of Duty: Black Ops63.233.625
Mafia 232.424.720.2
StarCraft 2128.422.412.3
Metro 203326.613.3
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