AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500

Price

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$ 4438.00

$ 299.99

$ 4138.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1827 points

2707 points

48% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS

60 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

41 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

51 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

23 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3668 points

4717 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39085 points

40204 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41542 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34601 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

41978 points

49159 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points

44390 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points

54355 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

926 MHz

1670 MHz

80% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz

1845 MHz

52% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

211 GB/s

224 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.59 Gigapixels/s

59 Gigapixels/s

52% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s

162.36 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.94 TFLOPS

5.2 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

45% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

45% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586

166th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 5500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 470 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

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 slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5500 over the Radeon RX 470.