AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +1%

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3684

Radeon RX 470

3678

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

32

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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