Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 6850 XT - video card comparison
Radeon RX 470
Radeon RX 6850 XT
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
Navi 21
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
2250 MHz
Core clock speed
926 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
26,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
325 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
648.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
576.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3
FreeSync
+
-