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Radeon RX 470 4GB vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

The Radeon RX 470 4GB comes with a clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1650 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB 120 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT 130 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB 211200 MB/sec
Difference: 18176 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is much (approximately 27%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 151096 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB 118528 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 32568 (27%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 85%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB 29632 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 25312 (85%)

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 5500 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year August 2016 December 2019
Code Name Polaris 10 Navi 14 XTX
Memory 4096 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 926 MHz 1717 MHz
Memory Speed 6600 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 130 watts
Bandwidth 211200 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 118528 Mtexels/sec 151096 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29632 Mpixels/sec 54944 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 1408
Texture Mapping Units 128 88
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 7 nm
Transistors 5700 million 6400 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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 max fill rate.

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Radeon RX 470 4GB

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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