ATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT vs R9 M470

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking583not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)no data
GPU code nameEmeraldM58, R520
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 years ago)1 March 2006 (18 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 cores76824
Core clock speed900 MHz8 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Texture fill rate48.00no data
Floating-point processing power1.536 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs48no data

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).

Laptop sizelargelarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no 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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz650 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)GDDR3
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 1 March 2006
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

R9 M470 has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M470 and Mobility Radeon X1800XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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