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
GeForce 940M
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1098 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 470
940M
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
512
-75.0%
Shaders
2,048
512
-75.0%
TMUs
128
32
-75.0%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
32
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Clocks
Base Clock
926 MHz
1020 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1098 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
2,048
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
14.40 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
17.57 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
35.14 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS
1,124.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
35.14 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
120 W
75 W
TDP (W)
120
75
-37.5%
Suggested PSU
300 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM107
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 900M
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
1,870 million
Die Size
232 mm²
148 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
12.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
5.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.7 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
179 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 800M
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 10 Mobile