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
RADEON
Radeon RX Vega 56
CORE STATE
Vega 10
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1471 MHz
TDP
210 W
BUS WIDTH
2048 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 470
RX Vega 56
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
3,584
+75.0%
Shaders
2,048
3,584
+75.0%
TMUs
128
224
+75.0%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
32
56
+75.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
926 MHz
1156 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1471 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
8,192
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
2048 bit
Bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
409.6 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
94.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS
10.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
659.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
21.09 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
120 W
210 W
TDP (W)
120
210
+75.0%
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Vega 10
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Vega
(RX Vega)
Process Size
14 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
12,500 million
Die Size
232 mm²
495 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Density
24.6M / mm²
25.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
280 mm
11 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
Polaris
Successor
Polaris
Navi