AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 87% (2250MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT +319%

20.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 XT +428%

19441

Radeon RX 470

3678

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +500%

72

Radeon RX 470

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +436%

134

Radeon RX 470

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +370%

188

Radeon RX 470

40

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +305%

138

Radeon RX 470

34

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +81%

178

Radeon RX 470

98

Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Aug 2016

Navi II

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

72

Compute Units

32

-

4608

Shading Units

2048

288

TMUs

128

ROPs

32

-

72

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

120W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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