AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 250W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (2105MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 +227%

16.17 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3678

Radeon RX 6800 +341%

16233

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

Radeon RX 6800 +441%

65

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

Radeon RX 6800 +368%

117

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

Radeon RX 6800 +320%

168

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

Radeon RX 6800 +270%

126

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

Radeon RX 6800 +73%

170

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2020

Arctic Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

60

-

2048

Shading Units

3840

128

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Navi 21

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

520 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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