AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon R9 380

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +42%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380

3.476 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470 +31%

3678

Radeon R9 380

2794

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon R9 380

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2015

Arctic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

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

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

28

-

2048

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.04 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.6 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.476 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.476 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

217.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

190W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Antigua

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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