Radeon RX 470 vs HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 27 May 2013
HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)

100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 470 .

Radeon RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsHaswell GT2 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs22 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs177 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs392 million
Shaders2048vs20
Compute Units32vs0
Core clock926 MHzvs200 MHz
ROPs32vs2
TMUs128vs4

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsSystem Shared
Bus Width256 bitvsSystem Shared
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vsSystem Shared
Memory Size4096 Mbvs0 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)
TDP120 wattsvs20 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs27 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)
    0.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)
    800.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)
    0.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • HD Graphics 4600 Mobile (Haswell GT2)
    8.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better