Radeon RX 470 and Radeon HD 8990 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon RX 470

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Pro

Malta

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

April 2013

Interface

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

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

375 Watt

Texture fill rate

154.4

128.0

Memory type

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

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync