AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1284MHz vs 1206MHz)

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

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +6%

5.259 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +2%

3775

Radeon RX 470

3694

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Aug 2016

Polaris

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1284 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

32

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

41.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

164.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

5.259 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

5.259 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

328.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 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_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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