AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1600MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +165%

13.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3678

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +92%

7078

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2017

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

64

-

2048

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

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

102.4 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 XTX AIR

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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