AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 3% (1206MHz vs 1175MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (45W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +134%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jul 2017

Arctic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

14

-

2048

Shading Units

896

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

45W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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