AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1695MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +620%

35.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3678

GeForce RTX 3090 +442%

19948

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

GeForce RTX 3090 +675%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

GeForce RTX 3090 +516%

154

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

GeForce RTX 3090 +400%

200

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

GeForce RTX 3090 +435%

182

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

GeForce RTX 3090 +113%

209

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2020

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

82

2048

Shading Units

10496

128

TMUs

328

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA102

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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