The Radeon HD 5470 graphics card is designed to solve simple problems and is used to a greater extent in office computers, old laptops. This model is part of the HD 5000 series. She was one of the first to perform relatively complex graphics processes using DirectX 11 technology.
HD 5000 Series
If we compare the ATI Radeon HD 5470 graphics card with the previous generation models, we can note that it added to the performance and post-processing of images. Application performance in OpenGL 4.0 has also increased significantly. And this has become a key feature of this adapter. The HD 5000 series itself has become available to the buyer since 2009. To date, these cards are no longer produced, and you can find them only in old office (sometimes even decommissioned) computers. By modern standards, this video card is very weak, and even when surfing on heavy sites, the system can slow down (most often the problem is not with the video card itself, but in the system as a whole).
However, compared to the previous series, the Radeon HD 5470 card received an improved graphics processor that was able to decode video in HD resolution. Also, modern GDDR5 memory was used here, which enabled the processor to process dual-stream HD video.
Features Radeon HD 5470
This chip, depending on the configuration, can belong to the middle or low price range. It is made on the Park architecture, which is actively used in discrete graphics. Based on this architecture, chips can be created using the 40-nm process technology and equipped with either DDR3 memory or GDDR5.
If the card is created with GDDR5 memory, then it costs more, and due to its higher performance the chip will be able to support modern games. Of course, we are talking about the games of that time. But a video card with DDR3 memory is a budget option for assembling a PC designed for office tasks.
Radeon HD 5470 has 80 stream processors (the so-called MADD cores) that support DirectX11 functionality. We are talking about:
- improved post-processing of graphic data;
- increasing the detail of objects;
- modernization of texture compression technology;
- render transparent objects.
If this is mobile graphics, then there is still the possibility of connecting three monitors to the laptop, but in practice, rarely does anyone connect more than two monitors at all. And even this is fraught with a loss of performance.
Note that the older lines of HD 5600 or 5700, whose video cards have 400 stream processors, the Radeon HD 5470 chip is inferior in performance. However, a sufficiently high frequency of the chip provides more or less normal performance.
Characteristics:
- The memory frequency is 1800 MHz.
- GPU frequency - 750 MHz.
- The number of transistors is 242 million.
- Technology - 40 nm.
To summarize strongly, the power of this graphics is enough to run any games that were released in 2009. Also, some popular games of 2012 will also go to the system with this graphics, but many demanding applications will require lowering the graphics settings. For example, in Fifa 11 and Left 4 Dead games at the highest graphics settings, FPS is always high. But the games Crysis Warhead or Far Cry 2 go only at medium / low graphics settings. Sometimes you have to generally reduce the video settings to a minimum. Well, about modern games it's generally silly to talk, because ATI Radeon HD 5470 will not be able to pull them even at the minimum settings. To run them, you will have to select a video card from a higher series.
Use in laptops
All laptops with this video card can be classified as budget. In terms of performance and computing power, even in 2009 they were classified as light. Most often, these laptops had a screen with a diagonal of 17 inches, no more.
Also, many models had built-in applications that could improve performance by overclocking the adapter without increasing power consumption. The chip also implements Switchable Graphics and PowerXpress technologies, which allows equipping laptops with integrated or discrete graphics cards. At the same time, switching between the adapters was quick enough (compared to the cards of the earlier series).
Finally
Mobility Radeon HD 5470 is a mid-range graphics card that is not manufactured today and is outdated. At one time it was a fairly popular and worthy product, but today it makes no sense to talk about its relevance. Even more modern and productive chips from the older series are already obsolete. This indicates the extremely rapid development of digital technology.