AMD Radeon RX 470D vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470D

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +30%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Oct 2013

Arctic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

44

1792

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

135.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

4.322 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.322 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

270.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Hawaii

Polaris 10 PROD

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

290W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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