Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon HD 4700

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
Radeon HD 4700
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 4700

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 4700

70 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 470 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon HD 4700
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsRV730 (RV730 XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs55 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs146 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs514 million
Shaders2048vs320
Compute Units32vs4
Core clock926 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs128vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon HD 4700
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR2
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470Radeon HD 4700
TDP120 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs11 Feb 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4700
    4.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4700
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4700
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4700
    384.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better