Radeon RX 470D vs Radeon HD 6670

Radeon RX 470D
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2016
Radeon RX 470D
Radeon HD 6670
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6670

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470D

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6670

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 470D

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470D

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470DRadeon HD 6670
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere LE)vsTurks (Turks XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs716 million
Shaders1792vs480
Compute Units28vs6
Core clock926 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs112vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470DRadeon HD 6670
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470DRadeon HD 6670
TDP120 wattsvs66 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2016vs19 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470D
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470D
    135.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470D
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470D
    4322.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6670
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better