AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

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

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1275MHz vs 1206MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +89%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2018

Arctic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 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

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

16

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

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

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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