AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2016
Oct 2013
Generation
Gem System
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1100 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
512bit
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
320.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
14
44
Shading Units
896
2816
TMUs
56
176
ROPs
16
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Emerald
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Emerald XT
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
438 mm²

Board Design

TDP
Unknown
290W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU
-
600 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.5
6.5