ATI Mobility Radeon 9500 vs ATI HD 5470

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1168not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.53no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameCedarM10
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date13 February 2012 (12 years ago)1 June 2004 (20 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 cores80no data
Core clock speed650 MHz230 MHz
Number of transistors292 million76 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Wattno data
Texture fill rate5.2000.92
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz190 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s3.04 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 February 2012 1 June 2004
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

ATI HD 5470 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5470 and Mobility Radeon 9500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5470 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon 9500 is a notebook one.


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