AMD Radeon RX 470D vs ATI Radeon HD 3850

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470D

ATI Radeon HD 3850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 53.12GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470D +909%

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

VS

Radeon HD 3850

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Nov 2007

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

53.12GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

4

-

1792

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

135.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

4.322 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.322 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

270.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

RV670

Polaris 10 PROD

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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