AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 580 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1340MHz 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 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +25%

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580 +18%

4359

Radeon RX 470

3694

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 580 +41%

17

Radeon RX 470

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 580 +40%

35

Radeon RX 470

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 580 +25%

50

Radeon RX 470

40

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580 +76%

60

Radeon RX 470

34

Radeon RX 580

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

Polaris

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1340 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

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

185W

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 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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