AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +15%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

36

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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