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 GTX 670
CORE STATE
GK104
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
980 MHz
TDP
170 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 470
GTX 670
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
1,344
-34.4%
Shaders
2,048
1,344
-34.4%
TMUs
128
112
-12.5%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
32
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Clocks
Base Clock
926 MHz
915 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
980 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
2,048
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
192.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
27.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
109.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS
2.634 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
109.8 GFLOPS (1:24)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
120 W
170 W
TDP (W)
120
170
+41.7%
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Kepler
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GK104
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 600
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
3,540 million
Die Size
232 mm²
294 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
12.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.175
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
241 mm
9.5 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
179 USD
399 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 500
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 700