AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

ATI Radeon HD 3470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

2264 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +9015%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2008

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

15.20GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

2

-

2304

Shading Units

40

144

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

RV620

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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