AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M 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

1993 points

9% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS

44 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

31 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

18 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3668 points

4472 points

21% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39085 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36948 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41542 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34067 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points

38725 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points

44878 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

926 MHz

1375 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz

1645 MHz

36% slightly 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

85 W

41% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.59 Gigapixels/s

52.6 Gigapixels/s

36% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

144.76 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.94 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

4.63 TFLOPS

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

209th 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 5500M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5500M graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 470 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5500M 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 5500M also has a slightly 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.

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. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500M has a slightly lower TDP at 85 W when compared to the Radeon RX 470 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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