AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1266MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +18%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480 +12%

4163

Radeon RX 470

3694

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480 +41%

17

Radeon RX 470

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480 +40%

35

Radeon RX 470

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480 +25%

50

Radeon RX 470

40

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480 +5%

36

Radeon RX 470

34

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480 +8%

106

Radeon RX 470

98

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Aug 2016

Arctic Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1266 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

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

150W

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 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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