Mobility HD 3670 vs Mobility HD4570

[ryan5rd]

I was thinking of getting a laptop to game on, and was looking towards dell(because alienware is way to expensive, and dell has centrino 2.)

So I checked out the studio 16 and 15, and realized that they both have slightly different graphics options, so I was wondering which of the 2 is better? Both laptops have the right size screen and a fast enough processor to game on, so its just the video cards.

I do game a lot, so the card has to be fast. I assume that they are good because they both have estimated core clock speeds of 680mhz, and my desktop(HD3850) is running at only 669mhz, and I can play all of the mainsteream games at a reasonable speed.

Please give me your opinion on these cards(for gaming) and for these laptops in general.

Thanks!

 

[mactronix]

The main differance as far as i can see is that if you want to play Blu Ray on it the 4570 has hardware to assist with that and the 3670 isnt as well equiped for that.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-4570.13885.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-3670.9595.0.html

Mactronix

 

[rangers]

the 4570 will be faster than the 3670

 

[Guest]

I have the 3670 in my dell studio 17 adn bought it specifically because of this mobile chip combined with the C2D processor @ 2ghz, it does game fairly okay, but nothing taxing, mostly stratergy games of past and will do well on almost all MMoO games like LOTRO or WoW but will not run never games like Crysis or Far Cry properly regardless of settings, the 3670 will play Blu Ray if you opt for a Blu Ray readder in the machine or use an external Blu Ray player - tested and verified ( the 3670 has HDCP compliancy and will offload all the work from the cpu),

here is 3670 specs and benches

Manufacturer ATI
Series Mobility Radeon 3000
Codename M86XT
Pipelines 120 - unified
Core Speed * 680 MHz
Shader Speed * 680 MHz
Memory Speed * 800 MHz
Memory Bus Width 128 Bit
Memory Type DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4

benchmarks

3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 20724, avg: 20724, max: 20724 Points ... More Details


3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 11927, avg: 12135, max: 12342 Points ... More Details

3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 6349, avg: 7284, max: 8219 Points ... More Details


3DMark 06:
0% 100%
min: 4146, avg: 4375, max: 4700 Points ... More Details

Crysis - CPU Benchmark: - Low 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 24.2, avg: 40, max: 55.75 fps ... More Details


Crysis - CPU Benchmark: - High 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 11.41, avg: 12, max: 12.26 fps ... More Details

Cinebench R10: - Shading
0% 100%
min: 4128, avg: 4145, max: 4162 Points ... More Details


Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo: - highest 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 490.9, avg: 491, max: 490.9 fps ... More Details

F.E.A.R.: - GPU min, CPU min 640x480
0% 100%
min: 307, avg: 307, max: 307 fps ... More Details


F.E.A.R.: - GPU medium, CPU medium 800x600
0% 100%
min: 31, avg: 31, max: 31 fps ... More Details

F.E.A.R.: - GPU: max, CPU: max 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 27, avg: 27, max: 27 fps ... More Details


Doom 3: - Low 640x480
0% 100%
min: 117.7, avg: 118, max: 117.7 fps ... More Details

Doom 3: - Medium 800x600
0% 100%
min: 122.2, avg: 122, max: 122.2 fps ... More Details


Doom 3: - High 800x600
0% 100%
min: 104, avg: 104, max: 104 fps ... More Details

Doom 3: - Ultra 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 71.5, avg: 72, max: 71.5 fps ... More Details


3DMark Vantage: - P Result 1280x1024
0% 100%
min: 1277, avg: 1277, max: 1277 Points ... More Details
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 23 benchmarks
3DMark 05 in comparison
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 (min) 150
...
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2700 6729
NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS 6735
ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 7080
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670 7284
ATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT 7300
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 7406
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 7568
...
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 (max)

Look where the 4570 stands in 3dmark 05 almost the same, but we are not sure of the rest of the laptops specs tested.

The 4570 only has 80 stream processors

Manufacturer ATI
Series Mobility Radeon HD 4000
Codename M92-XT
Pipelines 80 - unified
Core Speed * 680 MHz
Shader Speed * 680 MHz
Memory Speed * 800 MHz
Memory Bus Width 64 Bit
Memory Type GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3

hence giving nearly the same performance, both chipsets will be severly undeerclocked by dell on their machines (I know it is on the studio 17 I own) but this is easily remedied by using the amdgpu tool to get it back to the correct clocks, but only on mains as it drains the battery and with a laptop cooler as it does get hot, but it works., overall, dont expect massive gaming performance and either chip will operate around the same level.

 

[ryan5rd]

thank you!