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 Vega 8
CORE STATE
Raven
VRAM
System Shared
CLOCK SPEED
1100 MHz
TDP
25 W
BUS WIDTH
System Shared
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2018
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 470
Vega 8
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
512
-75.0%
Shaders
2,048
512
-75.0%
TMUs
128
32
-75.0%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
32
8
-75.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
926 MHz
300 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
System Shared
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
System Shared
VRAM (MB)
4,096
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Memory Type
GDDR5
System Shared
Memory Bus
256 bit
System Shared
Bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
System Dependent
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
8.800 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
35.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS
1,126.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
70.40 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
2.253 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
120 W
25 W
TDP (W)
120
25
-79.2%
Suggested PSU
300 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Raven
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Vega IGP
(Raven Ridge)
Process Size
14 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
4,940 million
Die Size
232 mm²
210 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Density
24.6M / mm²
23.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
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
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Motherboard Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Other
Launch Price
179 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GCN 3.0 IGP
Successor
Polaris
Vega II IGP