Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon RX 470D
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1545MHz vs 1206MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
+64%
7119
Radeon RX 470D
4322
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Oct 2016
Polaris
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
926 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
28
2304
Shading Units
1792
144
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.1 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.322 TFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.322 TFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
270.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
120W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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 Processor
Polaris 30
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PROD
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
12 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
