Radeon RX 470 Mobile and Radeon R9 290X - video card comparison
Radeon RX 470 Mobile
Radeon R9 290X
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
Hawaii XT
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
October 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
947 MHz
Core clock speed
926 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,399 gflops
5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2816
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
137.5
176.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
320 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
+
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-