AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Compare AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1919 points

5% slightly better overall score

1827 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

43 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

38 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

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38 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3987 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3668 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43067 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

39085 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48969 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41542 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43342 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33559 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44042 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

42112 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

947 MHz

1206 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320 GB/s

51% significantly higher memory bandwidth

211 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s

65% significantly higher pixel rate

38.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176 Gigatexels/s

13% slightly higher texture rate

154.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.63 TFLOPS

14% slightly better floating point performance

4.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

37% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

37% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

220th of 604

224th of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon RX 470 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R9 290X beats the Radeon RX 470 in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 470 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 470 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon R9 290X at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 290X is faster than the Radeon RX 470.