Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Mobility Radeon HD 4670


The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 from amd is a directx 10.1 middle-class notebook graphics adapter. technically it is a higher clocked mobility radeon hd 4650.

The gaming operation of the gpu lies between the desktop hd 4650 and 4670. hence , most directx 9 games (like halloo of duty 4 , f.e.a.r. , or unreal conflict 3) should be playable in elevated details (in 1024x768). demanding dx10 games from 2008 love crysis scuttle merely in medium details fluently.

The mobility hd 4670 is based upon the rv730 chip and physiognomy 320 gush processors (64 5-dimensional shader cores). these cores perform the graphic work of the shader- and pixel pipelines of older gpus. the gush processors are also called alus and are grouped in five-way vliw units. each of the five instructions of a vliw bundle has to be independent from the others and hence the operation depends upon the optimization of the driver.



A specialty of the radeon hd 4600 sequence is the possibility to apply usual ddr2 and ddr3 graphic reminiscence (as a cheaper alternative to gddr3). nonetheless , cards that apply that compassionate of reminiscence will be slower than others equipped with gddr ram.

The mobility radeon hd 4670 includes the avivo hd called video applied Science including an onboard soundchip for 7.1 sound output over hdmi or displayport and the 2nd generation uvd (unified video decoder). this uvd 2 supports full bitstream decoding of h.264/mpeg-4 avc and vc-1 streams. in addition to this , it also supports dual video gush decoding and picture-in picture mode which makes the uvd full bd-live compliant. simplified , the avivo hd applied Science handles all video tasks and enables the gpu to decode hd videos.

Amd published a current consumtion of approximately 28-30 watt for the hd 4670. still it is unclear if this value represents the chip alone or the whole mxm board including the reminiscence (which would include approximately 5 watt). nonetheless , the battery runtime should be compareable to a laptop with geforce 9600m gt / gt 130m graphics adapter.

Compared to the desktop ati radeon hd 4670 , the mobile duplicate physiognomy a slower chip and reminiscence clock (675/800 versus 775/900-1000) and hence performs somewhere between a desktop 4650 and 4670.

ManufacturerATI
SeriesMobility Radeon HD 4000
CodenameM96-XT
Pipelines320 - unified
Core Speed *675 MHz
Shader Speed *675 MHz
Memory Speed *800 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Max. Amount of Memory
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
Current Consumption35 Watt
Transistors514 Million
technology55 nm
FeaturesOpenGL 2.0, PCI-E 2.0 x16, Powerplay, DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600, HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio), 1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI, 1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
Notebook Sizemedium sized
Date of Announcement09.01.2009
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://ati.amd.com/products/MobilityRade...
* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.


Benchmarks by AMD

Amd published on the launch date of the hd 4000 series a document with relative benchmark values (hd 4670 to hd 3670). the benchmarks were conducted with a speedy desktop quad-core cpu and unplayable setting of 1600x1200 with 4x antialiasing and 16xaf. accordingly the following graph is simply of limited apply and shows simply the improvements in a Great Deal Of aspects over the predecessor.

Still there is similarly a graph with the 3dmark06 dissect. as the hd 3670 was announced with with Regards To 4700 3dmark06 points ,  the 4670 should dissect with Regards To 7000 points in 3dmark06 (1.5x performance according to the slide). accordingly ,  the performance would be on par with the antique hd 3850.
 

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