AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1206MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +20%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Unknown

Arctic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

32

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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