AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 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 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 92% (2310MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +378%

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3685

Radeon RX 6950 XT +482%

21448

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

Radeon RX 6950 XT +616%

86

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

Radeon RX 6950 XT +524%

156

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

Radeon RX 6950 XT +435%

214

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

Radeon RX 6950 XT +347%

152

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

Radeon RX 6950 XT +92%

189

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

May 2022

Arctic Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

80

2048

Shading Units

5120

128

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Navi 21

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

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

Board Design

120W

TDP

335W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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