GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 470

CORE STATE Ellesmere

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1206 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

VS

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 5500 XT

CORE STATE Navi 14

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1845 MHz

TDP 130 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 1.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

842

1,032

geekbench_metal

41,690

55,926

geekbench_opencl

33,568

44,625

geekbench_vulkan

39,884

42,120

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

56

passmark_directx_12

N/A

40

passmark_directx_9

N/A

133

passmark_g2d

N/A

774

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,083

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,446

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 470

RX 5500 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,408 -31.3%

Shaders

2,048

1,408 -31.3%

TMUs

128

88 -31.3%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

32

22 -31.3%

Clocks

Base Clock

926 MHz

1607 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1845 MHz

Game Clock

—

1717 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

211.2 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

59.04 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.940 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)

324.7 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)

10.39 TFLOPS (2:1)

Power

TDP

120 W

130 W

TDP (W)

120

130 +8.3%

Suggested PSU

300 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

RDNA 1.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Navi 14

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Navi (RX 5000)

Process Size

14 nm

7 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

6,400 million

Die Size

232 mm²

158 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

40.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

2.1

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

180 mm 7.1 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

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Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

179 USD

169 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Vega

Successor

Polaris

Navi II

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