AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon 530

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB vs AMD Radeon 530 4 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

1827 points
795% significantly better overall score
204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39085 points
461% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6960 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41542 points
416% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
8039 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points
429% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points
501% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
7006 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz
17% slightly higher boost clock speed
1024 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
100% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

211 GB/s
339% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.59 Gigapixels/s
370% significantly higher pixel rate
8.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s
528% significantly higher texture rate
24.58 Gigatexels/s

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
300% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586
429th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series
Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon 530 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 470 GPU is faster than the Radeon 530 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 470 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 470 is better than the Radeon 530.

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