AMD Radeon RX 470 vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

2008 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +7618%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2008

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

15.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

2

2048

Shading Units

40

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

RV620

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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