AMD Radeon RX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

ATI Radeon HD 3470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

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 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +11023%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jan 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 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

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

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 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

RV620

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 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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