Radeon RX 470 and FirePro V8700 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 470

FirePro V8700

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Pro

RV770

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

August 2016

September 2008

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1206 MHz

-

Core clock speed

926 MHz

750 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,940 gflops

1,200.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

956 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

800

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

151 Watt

Texture fill rate

154.4

30.00

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6600 MHz

3400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

211.2 GB/s

108.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

10.1 (10_1)

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

6.4

4.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

FreeSync

+

-