AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1275MHz vs 1206MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +89%

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560

1780

Radeon RX 470 +106%

3678

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 560

3

Radeon RX 470 +300%

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 560

12

Radeon RX 470 +108%

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 560

21

Radeon RX 470 +90%

40

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

94

Radeon RX 470 +4%

98

Radeon RX 560

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

Polaris

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

32

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

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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