Radeon RX 470 and Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire - video card comparison

Radeon RX 470

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Pro

Wimbledon XT

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

August 2016

May 2012

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1206 MHz

Core clock speed

926 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,940 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

154.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

2x 256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6600 MHz

4800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

211.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

11.1

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync