Overview of the Radeon HD 5470, description of the specification

The Radeon HD 5470 is intended forsolving simple problems and it is used more in office computers, older laptops. This model enters the HD 5000 series. It was one of the first to perform relatively complex graphics processes using DirectX 11 technology.

HD 5000 Series

If you compare the ATI Radeon HD 5470 withmodels of the previous generation, it can be noted that it added in the performance and post-processing of images. The performance of applications in OpenGL 4.0 also increased significantly. And this has become a key feature of this adapter. The HD 5000 series itself became available to the buyer since 2009. At the moment, these cards are no longer produced, and they can be found 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 brake (most often the problem is not the video card itself, but the system as a whole).

However, in comparison with the previous series, the mapRadeon HD 5470 received an improved graphics processor that was able to decode video in HD resolution. It also used modern GDDR5 memory, which enabled the processor to process two-stream HD video.

Specifications Radeon HD 5470

Depending on the configuration, this chip mayrefers to the average or low price range. It is made on the architecture of Park, actively used in discrete graphics. On the basis of this architecture can create chips made on 40-nm process technology and equipped with either DDR3 memory or GDDR5.

If the card is created with GDDR5 memory, then it costsmore expensive, and due to higher performance the chip will be able to support modern games. Of course, we are talking about the games of that time. But the video card with DDR3 memory is a budget option for building a PC designed for office tasks.

Radeon HD 5470 has 80 stream processors (the so-called MADD-cores) that support the functionality of DirectX11. We are talking about:

1. improvement of post-processing of graphic data;
2. increasing the detail of objects;
3. modernization of texture compression technology;
4. visualization of transparent objects.

If it's mobile graphics, then there's stillThere is a possibility to connect three monitors to a laptop, but in practice, few people even connect more than two monitors. And even this is fraught with a loss of productivity.

Note that the older HD 5600 series or5700, 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:

1. The memory frequency is 1800 MHz.
2. The frequency of the graphics processor is 750 MHz.
3. Number of transistors - 242 million.
4. The technology is 40 nm.

If we generalize strongly, then the powers of this graphenough to run any games that came out in 2009. Also some popular 2012 games of release will also go on the system with this graphics, but many demanding applications will require lowering of graphics parameters. For example, in Fifa 11 and Left 4 Dead games, the highest graphics settings always have a high FPS. But the game Crysis Warhead or Far Cry 2 are only on medium / low graphics. Sometimes you have to generally reduce the video settings to a minimum. Well, about modern games in general to speak silly, tk. ATI Radeon HD 5470 graphics card will not be able to pull them even at 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 attributed tobudget category. By performance and computing power, they even in 2009 were classified as light. Most often these laptops had a screen with a diagonal of 17 inches, not more.

Also, many models had built-in applications,which allowed to improve performance, overclocking the adapter without increasing power consumption. The chip also implemented the technology Switchable Graphics and PowerXpress, which allows you to equip laptops with built-in or discrete graphics cards. In this case, the switching between the adapters was fast enough (in comparison with the cards of the earlier series).

Finally

Mobility Radeon HD 5470 - an average video cardprice range, which is not produced today and is obsolete. At one time it was quite popular and worthy of its price product, but today talk about its relevance is meaningless. Even more modern and productive chips from the older series are already obsolete. This indicates the extremely rapid development of digital technology.