ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 videocard review

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 videocard released by ATI; release date: 9 January 2009. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on TeraScale microarchitecture codenamed M98.

Core clock speed - 550 MHz. Texture fill rate - 22 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 800. Floating-point performance - 880.0 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 55 nm. Transistors count - 956 million.

Memory type: GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1776 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 56.8 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38534
720
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1294
416
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
3350 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
3350.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 720
PassMark - G2D Mark 416
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3350 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3350.000 Fps

Games performance

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

High, 1024x76850.00

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

High, 1024x76850.00
Ultra, 1920x108014.50

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768165.00

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768582.00

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale
Code name M98
Launch date 9 January 2009
Place in performance rating 594
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 550 MHz
Floating-point performance 880.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm
Pipelines 800
Texture fill rate 22 GTexel / s
Transistor count 956 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 10.1
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 56.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1776 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay