Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 7950 XTX - video card comparison

Radeon RX 470

Radeon RX 7950 XTX

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

RDNA 3.0 (2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Pro

Navi 31

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1206 MHz

3300 MHz

Core clock speed

926 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

4,940 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

57,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

355 Watt

Texture fill rate

154.4

1,267

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6600 MHz

20 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

211.2 GB/s

960.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

+

+

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

2.0

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

FreeSync

+

-