AMD Radeon RX 470D vs AMD Radeon Sky 500
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2016
Mar 2013
Generation
Arctic Islands
Radeon Sky
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
926 MHz
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Boost Clock
1206 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
20
Shading Units
1792
1280
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
30.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
135.1 GTexel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.322 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.322 TFLOPS
2.432 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
270.1 GFLOPS
152.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PROD
Pitcairn XT GL(215-0828073)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
150W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.