AMD Radeon RX 470D vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 470D AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470D +58%

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

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Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Jan 2013

Arctic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

20

1792

Shading Units

1600

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

135.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

4.322 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.322 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

270.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Cypress

Polaris 10 PROD

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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