AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1560MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT +45%

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5600 XT +108%

7703

Radeon RX 470

3694

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +158%

31

Radeon RX 470

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +156%

64

Radeon RX 470

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +147%

99

Radeon RX 470

40

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +79%

61

Radeon RX 470

34

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +73%

170

Radeon RX 470

98

Radeon RX 5600 XT

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Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Aug 2016

Navi

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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