AMD Radeon R9 370X vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 470 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1206MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +87%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Aug 2016

Pirate Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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