Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 470

Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Vega (2017−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Pro

Vega Kaby Lake-G

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

August 2016

January 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1206 MHz

1011 MHz

Core clock speed

926 MHz

931 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,940 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

65 Watt

Texture fill rate

154.4

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

211.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12_1

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync