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Radeon RX 470 4GB vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

The Radeon RX 470 4GB makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1650 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1605 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB 120 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 225 Watts
Difference: 105 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 XT, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB 211200 MB/sec
Difference: 247552 (117%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should be much (about 117%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 256800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB 118528 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 138272 (117%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 247%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB 29632 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 73088 (247%)

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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 470 4GB Radeon RX 5700 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year August 2016 July 2019
Code Name Polaris 10 Navi 10
Memory 4096 MB 8096 MB
Core Speed 926 MHz 1605 MHz
Memory Speed 6600 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 225 watts
Bandwidth 211200 MB/sec 458752 MB/sec
Texel Rate 118528 Mtexels/sec 256800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29632 Mpixels/sec 102720 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 2560
Texture Mapping Units 128 160
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 7 nm
Transistors 5700 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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