AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

3136 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +867%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Mar 2010

Vega

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1280MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

320bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

3584

Shading Units

448

224

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

215W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GF100

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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