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

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 9070

CORE STATE Navi 48

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2520 MHz

TDP 220 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 4.0

nm

PROCESS 4 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

842

6,290

geekbench_metal

41,690

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,568

133,741

geekbench_vulkan

39,884

165,532

passmark_directx_10

N/A

141

passmark_directx_11

N/A

281

passmark_directx_12

N/A

74

passmark_directx_9

N/A

343

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,280

passmark_g3d

N/A

25,381

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

14,737

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 470

RX 9070

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

3,584 +75.0%

Shaders

2,048

3,584 +75.0%

TMUs

128

224 +75.0%

ROPs

32

128 +300.0%

Compute Units

32

56 +75.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

926 MHz

1330 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

2520 MHz

Game Clock

—

2070 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective

2518 MHz 20.1 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

644.6 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

2 MB

8 MB

L3 Cache

—

64 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

322.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

564.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.940 TFLOPS

36.13 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)

1,129.0 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)

72.25 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

56

Matrix Cores

—

112

Power

TDP

120 W

220 W

TDP (W)

120

220 +83.3%

Suggested PSU

300 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

RDNA 4.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Navi 48

Generation

Arctic Islands (RX 400)

Navi IV (RX 9000)

Process Size

14 nm

4 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

53,900 million

Die Size

232 mm²

357 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

151.0M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

2.2

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

240 mm 9.4 inches

—

Height

95 mm 3.7 inches

—

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

179 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Pirate Islands

Navi III

Successor

Polaris

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