Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 304W)
Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 146% (2970MHz vs 1206MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 470
4940
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+885%
48660
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 470
3679
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+727%
30445
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 470
1701
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+760%
14633
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Mar 2025
Arctic Islands
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
926 MHz
Base Clock
1660 MHz
1206 MHz
Boost Clock
2970 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
211.2GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
64
2048
Shading Units
4096
128
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
38.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
380.2 GPixel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
760.3 GTexel/s
4.940 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
97.32 TFLOPS
4.940 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.66 TFLOPS
308.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.521 TFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
304W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Navi 48
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
