AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1284MHz vs 1206MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +6%

5.259 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3678

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +2%

3759

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2018

Arctic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

232 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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