Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)
Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 160% (3130MHz vs 1206MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 470
4940
Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB
+419%
25640
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Jan 2025
Arctic Islands
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
926 MHz
Base Clock
2220 MHz
1206 MHz
Boost Clock
3130 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
211.2GB/s
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
32
-
SM Count
132
2048
Shading Units
2048
128
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
528
-
RT Cores
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
256 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
38.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
200.3 GPixel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
400.6 GTexel/s
4.940 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
51.28 TFLOPS
4.940 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
25.64 TFLOPS
308.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
801.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
2x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Navi 44
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT
GCN 4.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
4 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
29.7 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
199 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
9.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
