Radeon RX 470D vs Radeon RX 470

Radeon RX 470D
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2016
Radeon RX 470D
Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470D

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 470

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470DRadeon RX 470
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere LE)vsEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs232 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs5,700 million
Shaders1792vs2048
Compute Units28vs32
Core clock926 MHzvs926 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs112vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470DRadeon RX 470
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470DRadeon RX 470
TDP120 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2016vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470D
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470D
    135.10 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470D
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470D
    4322.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better