Radeon RX 470 vs RTX 4000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation 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 130W)
RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 80% (2175MHz vs 1206MHz)
More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 470
4940
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+441%
26730
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 470
3679
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+289%
14340
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 470
1701
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+294%
6708
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Aug 2023
Arctic Islands
Generation
Workstation Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
926 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1206 MHz
Boost Clock
2175 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
160bit
211.2GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
48
2048
Shading Units
6144
128
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
38.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
139.2 GPixel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
417.6 GTexel/s
4.940 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.73 TFLOPS
4.940 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.73 TFLOPS
308.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
130W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
AD104
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
