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AMD Radeon R9 M470

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 is a graphics card released on May 1, 2016 using a 28 nm process. It has 768 shading units, 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus, a boost clock of 1.00 GHz and a 75 W board power rating. It scores 2,331 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.5.

Strato Pro28 nm

8/10 key specs recorded · 25 facts

Depth: 38 recorded fields, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

768cores

Memory

4 GB

GDDR5 · 128-bit

Boost clock

1.00 GHz

900 MHz base

Board power

75 W

Performance

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 scores 2,331 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 69% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #887), measured across 7 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 307.

PassMark G3D Mark

2,331

Rank #887
Faster than 69% of 2,658 GPUs
7 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 48 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 57.3% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 8 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 45.3% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 17 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 46.4% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 11 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 38.8% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 874 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 43.4% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the AMD Radeon R9 M470 averages DirectX 9 48 fps, DirectX 10 8 fps, DirectX 11 17 fps, DirectX 12 11 fps and GPU Compute 874 ops/s, across 7 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

Theoretical throughput

FP32 (single precision) 1.536 TFLOPS calculatedcalculated from shaders x boost clock (MHz) x 2 / 1e6 = 768 x 1000 x 2 / 1e6

Pixel fill rate 16 GPixel/s calculatedcalculated from ROPs x boost clock (MHz) / 1000 = 16 x 1000 / 1000

Texture fill rate 48 GTexel/s calculatedcalculated from TMUs x boost clock (MHz) / 1000 = 48 x 1000 / 1000

FP32 (single precision) (1.536 TFLOPS), Pixel fill rate (16 GPixel/s) and Texture fill rate (48 GTexel/s) are calculated by Feex from stored specifications, not stated by AMD.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 Ã—16

Max memory 4 GB

Memory clock 1500 MHz

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.5

Max TDP 75 W

First benchmarked 2016-11-22

Samples 7

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD Radeon R9 M470 states the PCIe 3.0 Ã—16 interface, up to 4 GB of memory, DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2016-11-22. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Not to be confused with

This page covers the AMD Radeon R9 M470 specifically. It is a different product from AMD Radeon R9 M470X, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename Strato Pro

Chip Not recorded

Process node 28 nm

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 uses the Strato Pro graphics processor and is manufactured on a 28 nm process.

Shader configuration

Shading units 768

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 48

Render output units (ROPs) 16

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 has 768 shading units, 48 texture mapping units and 16 render output units.

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the AMD Radeon R9 M470.

Clock speeds

Base clock 900 MHz

Boost clock 1.00 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 runs at a base clock of 900 MHz and boosts to 1.00 GHz.

Memory

Size 4 GB

Type GDDR5

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth Not recorded

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 is equipped with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory and uses a 128-bit memory bus.

Board and power

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 has a board power rating of 75 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 Ã—16.

Board power (TDP) 75 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 Ã—16

Market

Launched May 1, 2016

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Laptop

Series Radeon

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 was released on May 1, 2016.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 2,331

PassMark G2D 307

Rank #887

Samples 7

Graphics and compute APIs

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 supports DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.5.

DirectX 12 (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 4.5 (stated by PassMark)

CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and does not apply to the AMD Radeon R9 M470. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the AMD Radeon R9 M470. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the AMD Radeon R9 M470.

Naming and aliases

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as AMD Radeon(TM) R9 M470.

Other names (PassMark) AMD Radeon(TM) R9 M470

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the AMD Radeon R9 M470 have?

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus.

How much power does the AMD Radeon R9 M470 use and what power supply does it need?

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 has a board power rating of 75 W.

How fast is the AMD Radeon R9 M470?

The AMD Radeon R9 M470 scores 2,331 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 69% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #887. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 11 fps.