AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 455 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +206%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 455 OEM

1.613 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon RX 455 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2016

Arctic Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

12

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tobago

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

100W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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