AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1206MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +14%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

32

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

120W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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