Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon RX 470D - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970

Radeon RX 470D

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Tahiti XT

Ellesmere

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2011

October 2016

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

1206 MHz

Core clock speed

-

926 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 gflops

4,322 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

118.4

135.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1375 MHz

6600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

264 GB/s

211.2 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

+

-

HDMI

+

+

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (12_0)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-