Radeon Pro Duo vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1650 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon Pro Duo		27167 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 15411 (131%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
Radeon Pro Duo		350 Watts
	Difference: 230 Watts (192%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Pro Duo should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 470 in general. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		1024000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 812800 (385%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo will be quite a bit (more or less 332%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		512000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 393472 (332%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo will be quite a bit (more or less 332%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		128000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 98368 (332%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.