AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Price

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$ 4438.00

$ 349.00

$ 4089.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1827 points

2605 points

42% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS

56 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

40 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

48 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

22 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3668 points

4904 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

38292 points

41242 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39085 points

48577 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41542 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

41978 points

56001 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points

46502 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points

53890 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

926 MHz

1607 MHz

73% 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

Identical

8 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

8% slightly lower TDP

130 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

172nd 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 December

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 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5500 XT beats the Radeon RX 470 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 470 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 XT is better than the Radeon RX 470.