AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1471MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +113%

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3678

Radeon RX Vega 56 +87%

6878

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

Radeon RX Vega 56 +150%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

Radeon RX Vega 56 +128%

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

Radeon RX Vega 56 +117%

87

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

Radeon RX Vega 56 +167%

91

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

Radeon RX Vega 56 +12%

110

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Aug 2017

Arctic Islands

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

56

-

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

210W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Vega 10

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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