AMD Radeon RX 470 vs ATI Radeon HD 4520

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

ATI Radeon HD 4520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +5045%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4520

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon HD 4520

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Dec 2009

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

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

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

1

-

2048

Shading Units

80

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

RV710

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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