ATI Mobility Radeon 4670

The ATI Mobility Radeon 4670 is a mid-grade notebook graphics card right above the Radeon 4650 in specifications, both cards are specifically designed to provide high definition entertainment support through the use of the high performance Radeon 4600 series GPU and Microsoft DirectX 10 for gaming. The Radeon 4670 is the successor to AMD's earlier Radeon 3670 GPU device and will likely feature similar specifications. AMD claims the Radeon 4600 series GPU units will deliver 4 times the performance of their previous GPUs; and will even consume less power, meaning a longer battery life. In order to keep track of power consumption the 4600 series GPU will take advantage of integrated ATI Powerplay technology. The built-in Microsoft DirectX 10 support means the Radeon 4600 series devices will be fully compatible with Windows Vista, and will also support the Aero graphics interface. AMD quotes that users of the Mobility Radeon 4670 will be able to experience full HD quality content, including HD video editing, Blu-ray media, Picture-in-Picture (PIP) media, High definition photos, and users wil also be able play the most popular and demanding 3D games to date. The Radeon 4650 and 4670 GPU devices also include support for 7.1 channel pass through audio to the integrated HDMI port. The Radeon 4670 notebook graphics cards will feature a 680 MHz core and shader clock, an 800MHz memory clock speed, and a Radeon 4600 series 55nm processor with GDDR3 memory support; due to the reported specs the device will most likely include 512MB onboard memory.