Radeon RX 570 vs Radeon HD 4770

Radeon RX 570
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 570
Radeon HD 4770
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Apr 2009
Radeon HD 4770

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 570

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 4770

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 570 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 570

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 570Radeon HD 4770
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsRV740 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs137 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs826 million
Shaders2048vs640
Compute Units32vs8
Core clock926 MHzvs750 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs128vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 570Radeon HD 4770
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 570Radeon HD 4770
TDP120 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs28 Apr 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4770
    12.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    154.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4770
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 570
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4770
    51.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 570
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4770
    960.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better