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
A2
CORE STATE
GA107
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1770 MHz
TDP
60 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 470
A2
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
1,280
-37.5%
Shaders
2,048
1,280
-37.5%
TMUs
128
40
-68.8%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
10
Clocks
Base Clock
926 MHz
1440 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1770 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
1563 MHz
12.5 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
128 bit
Bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
200.1 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
56.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS
4.531 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
70.80 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
4.531 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
10
Tensor Cores
—
40
Power
TDP
120 W
60 W
TDP (W)
120
60
-50.0%
Suggested PSU
300 W
250 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GA107
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Workstation Ampere
(Ax000)
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
8,700 million
Die Size
232 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Density
24.6M / mm²
43.5M / 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
—
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
179 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Quadro Turing
Successor
Polaris
Workstation Ada