Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 550 640SP - video card comparison
Radeon RX 470
Radeon RX 550 640SP
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
Baffin
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
October 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
1071 MHz
Core clock speed
926 MHz
1019 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
1,371 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
640
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
42.84
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-