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

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AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 560

CORE STATE Polaris 21

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1275 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

842

N/A

geekbench_metal

41,690

23,597

geekbench_opencl

33,568

16,234

geekbench_vulkan

39,884

N/A

passmark_directx_10

N/A

16

passmark_directx_11

N/A

25

passmark_directx_12

N/A

21

passmark_directx_9

N/A

57

passmark_g2d

N/A

485

passmark_g3d

N/A

3,671

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

1,437

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 470

RX 560

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,024 -50.0%

Shaders

2,048

1,024 -50.0%

TMUs

128

64 -50.0%

ROPs

32

16 -50.0%

Compute Units

32

16 -50.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

926 MHz

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1275 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

211.2 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

2 MB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

20.40 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.940 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)

163.2 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)

2.611 TFLOPS (1:1)

Power

TDP

120 W

75 W

TDP (W)

120

75 -37.5%

Suggested PSU

300 W

250 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GCN 4.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Polaris 21

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Polaris (RX 500)

Process Size

14 nm

14 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

3,000 million

Die Size

232 mm²

123 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries

Density

24.6M / mm²

24.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.3

OpenCL

2.1

2.1

Shader Model

6.7

6.7

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

170 mm 6.7 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

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Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

179 USD

99 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Arctic Islands

Successor

Polaris

Vega

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