AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 470
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2014
Aug 2016
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Arctic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1650 MHz
Base Clock
-
926 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1206 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
211.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
32
Shading Units
2816
2048
TMUs
176
128
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
38.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
4.940 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
308.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.940 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Polaris 10 PRO(215-0876204)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
580W
120W
Suggested PSU
950 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
6.4