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
GEFORCE
CMP 40HX
CORE STATE
TU106
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1650 MHz
TDP
185 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 470
CMP 40HX
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
2,304
+12.5%
Shaders
2,048
2,304
+12.5%
TMUs
128
144
+12.5%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
36
Clocks
Base Clock
926 MHz
1470 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
8,192
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
105.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
237.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS
7.603 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
237.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
15.21 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
36
Tensor Cores
—
288
Power
TDP
120 W
185 W
TDP (W)
120
185
+54.2%
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Turing
GPU Name
Ellesmere
TU106
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Mining GPUs
Process Size
14 nm
12 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
10,800 million
Die Size
232 mm²
445 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
24.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
7.5
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
229 mm
9 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Other
Launch Price
179 USD
699 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
—
Successor
Polaris
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