Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 11 Jan 2014
Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 470
    773%
  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 673% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)

105 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

The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsSpectre ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs245 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs2,410 million
Shaders2048vs512
Compute Units32vs8
Core clock926 MHzvs720 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs128vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsSystem Shared
Bus Width256 bitvsSystem Shared
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vsSystem Shared
Memory Size4096 Mbvs0 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
TDP120 wattsvs15 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs11 Jan 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    5.76 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    23.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    0.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    737.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 470
    16690
  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    2157

Points (higher is better)