AMD Radeon RX 470 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

ATI Radeon HD 4720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 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 and 8 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +1186%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Dec 2011

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

667 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

4

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

55W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

RV730

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

146 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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