AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2016
Dec 2010
Generation
Arctic Islands
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
926 MHz
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Boost Clock
1206 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
160.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
22
Shading Units
2048
1408
TMUs
128
88
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
563.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Cayman
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO(215-0876204)
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
200W
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.