GPU Comparison
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
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX Vega M GL
CORE STATE
Polaris 22
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1011 MHz
TDP
65 W
BUS WIDTH
1024 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2018
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 470
RX Vega M GL
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
1,280
-37.5%
Shaders
2,048
1,280
-37.5%
TMUs
128
80
-37.5%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
32
20
-37.5%
Clocks
Base Clock
926 MHz
931 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1011 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
700 MHz
1400 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
4,096
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
1024 bit
Bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
179.2 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
32.35 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
80.88 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS
2.588 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
161.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
2.588 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
120 W
65 W
TDP (W)
120
65
-45.8%
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Polaris 22
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Vega
(Vega M)
Process Size
14 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
5,000 million
Die Size
232 mm²
208 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Density
24.6M / mm²
24.0M / 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
IGP
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
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Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Other
Launch Price
179 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
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Successor
Polaris
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