I was recently impressed by the good performance of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330, and finally I got some benchmarks of the Mobility 4530 and 4570. The data belong to the benchmarking effort I coordine, so they are user-submitted benchmarks: there are different processors, operating systems, driver versions… Sure, it’s not the typical lab-controlled benchmark you are used to read in sites such as AnandTech, Tom’s Hardware and so, but they help assessing the relative gaming performance of these cards.
The most interesting results are from the Crysis GPU benchmark at 1024×768 and Medium details. Here you have a comparison with other better known cards. The GeForce 9600M GT in the chart is the GDDR3 version and is overclocked (600, 1500 and 840 MHz for core, shaders and memory, respectively; stock clocks are 500, 1250 and 800), so it is a quite powerful card in its class:
You can look at the complete benchmark chart to see all available data.
A few remarks:
- The Mobility Radeon HD 4330 found in the Dell Inspiron 1545 (US, UK) clearly belongs to a different class than the 3450 and other similar cards such as the GeForce 9300M GS. The difference in the result is likely due to the different memory (GDDR3 vs DDR2) more than to other specs of the cards, but at the moment all 4330 cards I have seen are GDDR3 and all 3450 are DDR2.
- The Mobility Radeon HD 4570 found in the Dell Studio 1555 (US, UK) is comparable to a 9600M GT GDDR3 at stock clocks and is probably superior to the DDR2 version. The high-performing processor in the laptop (an Intel Core 2 Duo T9550 @ 2.66 GHz) could contribute to the high scores, but the influence of the processor usually is only significant at low demanding settings (800×600 or lower and low detail). This particular user plays Crysis at 1280×720, Medium Shadows and the remaining settings at Low. Update: there are some videos at Youtube showing gameplay in Crysis, Half Life 2 Episode 2, Unreal Tournament 3 and Sins of a Solar Empire.
- The Mobility Radeon HD 4530 found in the HP Pavilion dv6 (US dv6t
, US dv6z
, UK) and dv7t is in the middle, probably at the level of a GeForce 9600M GT DDR2. Update: I have updated the benchmark chart with the Devil May Cry 4 DX9 benchmarks; the results are a bit worse than in Crysis compared to the Nvidia solutions.
- Keep in mind that these are scores of a single game and a few different configurations. Anyway, it is a very popular game with a lot of benchmarks published in the Net, so it is quite informative. If I can get more data I will update this post.
Related posts:
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 performs very well (for an entry-level card)
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 gaming benchmarks (Call of Duty 4, Crysis, World of Warcraft, F.E.A.R. 2, Sacred 2, Red Alert 3, Unreal Tournament 3, World in Conflict, GRID, Far Cry, Half Life 2)
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670 gaming benchmarks vs Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 benchmarks
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 x2: the most powerful?
Tags: ATI, benchmarks, Crysis, Mobility Radeon
Hey Felip hello i see u know more of graphic cards games and graphics than me i wanted to ask i a question for a laptops i want to buy if u can answer me it would be great.
Wich laptop is better for playing games and program photoshop and games like crysis , dantes inferno , devil may cry , god of war , assasing creed.And if u can tell me what is better HP , Dell or Asus.Thanks in advance
1.Notebook HP ProBook 4510s VC430EA T5870 4GB 500GB
2.Notebook Asus N71VG-TY008D T6600 Core2Duo nVidia G220M 4GB RAM
2.Notebook HP ProBook 4510s Intel Core2DuoT5870 2.00 GHz 4096 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330
This one is easy: the GT 220M in the Asus is much better than the MR 4330, and Asus is one of the best brads out there. But if you can find laptops at a similar price and processor with an ATI MR 4650, it’s faster than the GT 220M and can be found in quite affordable laptops, and the 5650 has recently introduced to the marked and it’s even better (there are only a handful of models with the 5650 right now).
I wrote about upper-mainstream graphics cards here: http://optimitza.cat/news/2009/11/24/nvidia-geforce-gt-230m-gt-240m-and-gts-250m-benchmarks/
Hey Felip! I got the Toshiba Satellite A505-6965 and I must say…Its way better than what NOTEBOOKCHECK said.
I know it depends on the laptop, but it said I would barely play any games.
I max out Bioshock 2 with everything on, 1366×768, I max out MW2 with everything on the highest, 4x AA, I can run Dragon Age on high, Crysis medium-high, CoD4 maxed, L4D and L4D2 maxed, and I love it.
All these games I get 20-30+ FPS (20-30-40FPS With BioShock 2 and 20+ for Crysis) and its very playable
Yougamers and CANURUNIT love to lie in me.
P.S I modded my drivers so I get about 5-10+ FPS, depending on game.
Hey guy, please share something about those modded drivers!
As for some review/gaming sites, many times the people that writes the reviews want 60+ FPS at high settings, so they consider 20-30 FPS unplayable… If that model uses the 4570 I find your Crysis results a bit too good to be true (I had to go down to Medium at 1440×900 DX9 to get smooth gameplay on my desktop with the 4670) but anyway, I’m glad you are happy with that laptop and you share your experience here.
Thanks!
Here is the link for the modded drivers:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/modtool.php
I would play Crysis again and tell you, but I uninstalled it and sold it a long time ago, I probably should have kept it.
OK, you mean you modded the drivers for desktop graphics cards to use them in your notebook. You can also download already modded drivers from touslesdrivers.com: http://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?v_page=12&v_code=37
Maybe your Crysis figures are OK, you probably were playing at a lower resolution, I remembered having tried 1280×800 and High settings and it was somehow playable, but I didn’t like that resolution on my 22-inch screen (native is 1680×1050).
Thanks for your contribution!
hey guys….
I bought a laptop last dec ..itz of HP-dv6 and it has ati radeon hd 4530 with 4 gb ram
And i would be very pleased to know if it can run new games like modern warfare 2
or battle field bad company 2 or crysis warhead…..
PLzzz help me i really wanna play bad company 2….
U knw games are very very expensive in india i don’t wannna waste ma money ….heLP
No problem, all the games ara playable with your configuration at medium settings or better (maybe a mixture of medium-low for Crysis Warhead), if you like high framerates (50+) you still have room to reduce settings.
Well, I have to correct myself, I just found this article: http://www.notebookjournal.de/tests/review-spieletest-battlefield-bad-company-2-on-laptop-nkmo-1128
The 4570 seems too slow to run BF BC2 at medium settings, maybe at low…
ati radeon hd4530 can max out modern warfare2, but it is not all that smooth where there’s plenty fireworks. u can overclock it using AMD GPU CLOCK TOOL 0.9.26.0
Thanks for the information! At what resolution are you playing?
hi sir, im not sure if i understand it quite right… hmm.. can msie460x with ati radeon mobility 4330 play crysis warhead and any other high requirement games? im about to buy a laptop and the seller told me that it can play the game.. i just need to make sure.. thanks..
Well, you can certainly play Crysis Warhead at low resolution and settings, but some newer games such as Metro 2033 are more demanding and are probably going to be unplayable (the MSI EX460 uses the slowest version of the 4330, with DDR2 memory).
Hi how are you? I have a Radeon Mobility 4650 1 gig GDDR3 and I just want know how good of a card is that, can I plaY newer games on it, do I need to look for a replacement soon btw I have a laptop, what class graphics card is it? is it like a a high mid end card any information will be greatly appreciated.
That card is OK to play most games at Medium-High settings, but some recent titles such as Metro 2033 will only be playable at Low settings. Sadly in most laptops you can’t replace the graphics card. What’s the laptop brand and model?
Thanks for your answer I have a HP Pavilion Dv7-3169wm laptop, the specs are a AMD Turion II M620, 6gig dd2800 with 2 gigs dedicated to the video subsystem, 640gig hard drive and screen resolution is 1600×900 btw is the Mobility 4670 comparable in performance to the Mobility 4650?
If it’s an HP Pavilion the graphics card is not upgradeable. The 4670 is an overclocked 4650, it can be around 15-20% faster.
I overclock my Mobility Radeon 4650 to 620/900 will those speeds give me better performance than a 4670 or will the performance be comparable? what about the nVidia GeForce 425m GT is that comparable performance wise to the 4650? thanks in advance for the info
I overclock my Mobility Radeon 4650 to 620/900 will those speeds give me better performance than a 4670 or will the performance be comparable? what about the nVidia GeForce 425m GT is that comparable performance wise to the 4650? thanks in advance for the info as I’d love to know
A 4670 is nothing more than an overclocked 4650. Standard clocks of the 4670 are 675/800, so you are probably quite close in performance (provided your card has DDR3 or GDDR3 memory).
to compare the 4650 with the GT 425M I’m having a look to the benchmarks at Notebookcheck:
4650: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-4650.13883.0.html
GT 425M: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Geforce-GT-425M.34152.0.html
As you can see there are a lot of very different results for the 4650, but both cards are definitely comparable.