AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1845MHz vs 1206MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT +5%

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3694

Radeon RX 5500 XT +32%

4901

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

Radeon RX 5500 XT +91%

23

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

Radeon RX 5500 XT +72%

43

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

Radeon RX 5500 XT +77%

71

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

Radeon RX 5500 XT +73%

59

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

Radeon RX 5500 XT +26%

124

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Dec 2019

Arctic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

22

2048

Shading Units

1408

128

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Navi 14

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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