AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1471MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +113%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +87%

6878

Radeon RX 470

3678

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +150%

30

Radeon RX 470

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +128%

57

Radeon RX 470

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +117%

87

Radeon RX 470

40

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +167%

91

Radeon RX 470

34

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +12%

110

Radeon RX 470

98

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

Vega

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

32

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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