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 VII
CORE STATE
Vega 20
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1750 MHz
TDP
295 W
BUS WIDTH
4096 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.1
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 470
VII
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
3,840
+87.5%
Shaders
2,048
3,840
+87.5%
TMUs
128
240
+87.5%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
32
60
+87.5%
Clocks
Base Clock
926 MHz
1400 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
1000 MHz
2 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
16,384
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
4096 bit
Bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
1.02 TB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
112.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
420.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS
13.44 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
3.360 TFLOPS (1:4)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
26.88 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
120 W
295 W
TDP (W)
120
295
+145.8%
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 5.1
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Vega 20
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Vega II
(Radeon VII)
Process Size
14 nm
7 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
13,230 million
Die Size
232 mm²
331 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
40.0M / 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
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
280 mm
11 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
125 mm
4.9 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
179 USD
699 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Vega
Successor
Polaris
Navi