AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (2150MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X +345%

22.02 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon Pro W6900X

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Aug 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

2150 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

80

-

2048

Shading Units

5120

128

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

275.2 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

688.0 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

44.03 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.02 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1376 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Navi 21

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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