Radeon R4 Graphics vs ATI Mobility HD 3470

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1365not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.37no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameM82Beema
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2008 (16 years ago)11 June 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40128
Core clock speed680 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors181 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate2.7206.400
Floating-point processing power0.0544 TFLOPS0.2048 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceMXM-IIIGP
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.112 (12_0)
Shader Model4.16.3
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2008 11 June 2014
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 15 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 3470 has 25% lower power consumption.

R4 Graphics, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3470 and Radeon R4 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 3470 is a notebook card while Radeon R4 Graphics is a desktop one.


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