AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 230W)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2581MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT +167%

13.21 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3678

Radeon RX 6700 XT +247%

12779

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

Radeon RX 6700 XT +333%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

Radeon RX 6700 XT +284%

96

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

Radeon RX 6700 XT +255%

142

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

Radeon RX 6700 XT +205%

104

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

Radeon RX 6700 XT +69%

166

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Mar 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

2321 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

40

-

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

230W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Navi 22

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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