AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD FirePro W4000

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD FirePro W4000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +289%

4.94 TFLOPS

FirePro W4000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

FirePro W4000

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Aug 2012

Arctic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

12

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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