AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1074MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 Mobile +329%

4.399 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2012

Mobility Radeon

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1074 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

10

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

34.37 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

137.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

4.399 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.399 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

274.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Heathrow

Ellesmere PRO

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs AMD Radeon 535 Mobile

2

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

3

NVIDIA GeForce 920MX vs AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

4

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

5

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

6

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile

7

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R5 M240

8

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830

9

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

10

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Related News

1

Surpassing RTX 2050! Intel's Next-Gen Integrated Graphics Benchmark Closely Approaches AMD

2

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower

3

X3D Performance Beyond Words! AMD Ryzen 7 9700X May Unlock Power Consumption: From 65W to 120W

4

First Benchmark Leak of Intel Core Ultra 7 268V: Single-Core Performance Soars by 20%, Still Lags Behind AMD

5

NVIDIA Grace CPU Benchmark Results Released, Stunning Performance

6

Minisforum Launches UM890 Pro Mini PC with R9 8945HS and Dual USB4 Ports

7

Does the Apple A18 Neural Engine Boast Superior Performance? Computational Power May Surpass M4 Chip

8

AMD's Commitment to Pioneering Each Generation with Cutting-Edge Process Technology and Continuous Innovation in Design, Packaging, and Assembly

9

NVIDIA to Ramp Up Orders and Add New Suppliers to Meet Explosive Demand for Blackwell Products

10

NVIDIA Informs Brands of Reduced Supply for RTX 40 Series GPUs