Radeon RX 470 and Radeon HD 7990 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon HD 7990
Radeon RX 470
8339
Radeon HD 7990
5732
Radeon RX 470
Radeon HD 7990
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
Malta
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
April 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
926 MHz
950 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
2x 4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
375 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
128.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-