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Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

The Radeon HD 7870 XT makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which features a GPU core clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 SPUs, 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 RX 470 11756 points
Radeon HD 7870 XT 6390 points
Difference: 5366 (84%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 26 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT 15 Mh/s
Difference: 11 (73%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 120 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT 185 Watts
Difference: 65 Watts (54%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 470 should in theory be a small bit better than the Radeon HD 7870 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 211200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT 192000 MB/sec
Difference: 19200 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be quite a bit (approximately 33%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 7870 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT 88800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 29728 (33%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a small bit (more or less 0%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7870 XT, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 29632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT 29600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 32 (0%)

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 HD 7870 XT Radeon RX 470
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2012 August 2016
Code Name Tahiti LE Polaris 10
Memory 2048 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 925 MHz 926 MHz
Memory Speed 6000 MHz 6600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 185 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 192000 MB/sec 211200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 88800 Mtexels/sec 118528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29600 Mpixels/sec 29632 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 2048
Texture Mapping Units 96 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 4313 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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