NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2520MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

14336 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1571%

82.58 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +889%

36549

Radeon RX 470

3694

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1441%

185

Radeon RX 470

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1020%

280

Radeon RX 470

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +660%

304

Radeon RX 470

40

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +444%

185

Radeon RX 470

34

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +89%

186

Radeon RX 470

98

GeForce RTX 4090

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Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 40

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

16384

Shading Units

2048

512

TMUs

128

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

72 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Ellesmere

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

14 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

120W

850 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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