Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon HD 8470 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8470 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1888 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 8470 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 470
+1891%
4940
Radeon HD 8470 OEM
248
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Jan 2013
Arctic Islands
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
926 MHz
Base Clock
-
1206 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
211.2GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
2
2048
Shading Units
160
128
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
38.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.100 GPixel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.200 GTexel/s
4.940 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.940 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
248.0 GFLOPS
308.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
35W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Caicos
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
