AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2581MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6700 XT +167%

13.21 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6700 XT +246%

12772

Radeon RX 470

3685

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6700 XT +333%

52

Radeon RX 470

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6700 XT +284%

96

Radeon RX 470

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6700 XT +255%

142

Radeon RX 470

40

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6700 XT +205%

104

Radeon RX 470

34

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6700 XT +69%

166

Radeon RX 470

98

Radeon RX 6700 XT

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Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Mar 2021

Release Date

Aug 2016

Navi II

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2321 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

2581 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

32

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

413.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

26.43 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

825.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

230W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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