AMD Cayman
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M470X
AMD Cayman
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M470X

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon R9 M470X. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
342
TeraScale 3
Architecture
GCN 2
Cayman
Code name
Emerald
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
14 May 2016 (5 years ago)
$17.44
Price now
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Cayman
GPU code name
Emerald
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon R9 M470X based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
896
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Core clock speed
1100 MHz
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Boost Clock
1100 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
2,080 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Texture fill rate
61.60
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Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
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Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
2,640 million
Number of transistors
2,080 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon R9 M470X.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon R9 M470X can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon R9 M470X, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
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Technologies

The difference between AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon R9 M470X is the additional functionality.

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DirectCompute 5.0
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon R9 M470X. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cayman and AMD Radeon R9 M470X graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cayman or AMD Radeon R9 M470X good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon R9 M470X
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon R9 M470X
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon R9 M470X
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon R9 M470X
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cayman
AMD Radeon R9 M470X
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cayman

More pipelines (1536 vs 896)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 M470X

16.48% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Cayman or AMD Radeon R9 M470X?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 M470X .

AMD Cayman versus AMD Radeon R9 M470X performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cayman
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R9 M470X