Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon RX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1905MHz vs 1206MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+97%
9754
Radeon RX 470
4940
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+156%
9425
Radeon RX 470
3679
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+159%
4414
Radeon RX 470
1701
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+225%
39
Radeon RX 470
12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+196%
74
Radeon RX 470
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+177%
111
Radeon RX 470
40
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+135%
80
Radeon RX 470
34
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+89%
186
Radeon RX 470
98
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Aug 2016
Navi
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1605 MHz
Base Clock
926 MHz
1905 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
32
2560
Shading Units
2048
160
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
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L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
120W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
7 nm
Process Size
14 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.5
Shader Model
6.4
