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Radeon RX 470 4GB vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

The Radeon RX 470 4GB features a clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB 120 Watts
Radeon RX 590 175 Watts
Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 590 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 590 262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB 211200 MB/sec
Difference: 50944 (24%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be a lot (approximately 78%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 590 211536 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB 118528 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 93008 (78%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 will be much (approximately 59%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 590 47008 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB 29632 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 17376 (59%)

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 590
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year August 2016 November 2018
Code Name Polaris 10 Polaris 30
Memory 4096 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 926 MHz 1469 MHz
Memory Speed 6600 MHz 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 211200 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 118528 Mtexels/sec 211536 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29632 Mpixels/sec 47008 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 2304
Texture Mapping Units 128 144
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 12 nm
Transistors 5700 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon RX 470 4GB

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Radeon RX 590

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