AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2520MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

19712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +2120%

109.7 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2025

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

170

2048

Shading Units

21760

128

TMUs

680

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GB202

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

232 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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