GPU Comparison

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AMD

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

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

RTX A4000

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1560 MHz

TDP 140 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

842

2,604

geekbench_metal

41,690

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,568

121,988

geekbench_vulkan

39,884

111,712

passmark_directx_10

N/A

126

passmark_directx_11

N/A

158

passmark_directx_12

N/A

72

passmark_directx_9

N/A

240

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,024

passmark_g3d

N/A

19,459

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,760

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 470

RTX A4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

Shaders

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

TMUs

128

192 +50.0%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

926 MHz

735 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1560 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

16,384 +300.0%

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)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

149.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

299.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.940 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)

299.5 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)

19.17 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

192

Power

TDP

120 W

140 W

TDP (W)

120

140 +16.7%

Suggested PSU

300 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA104

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

14 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

17,400 million

Die Size

232 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Samsung

Density

24.6M / mm²

44.4M / 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

—

8.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

179 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Quadro Turing

Successor

Polaris

Workstation Ada

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