Radeon RX 470 and Radeon HD 8850M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon HD 8850M
Radeon RX 470
8339
Radeon HD 8850M
1002
Radeon RX 470
Radeon HD 8850M
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
Venus
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
December 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
725 MHz
Core clock speed
926 MHz
575 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
640
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
154.4
25.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
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
+
-