AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, 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

1836 points

0.49% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

40 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

Identical

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3668 points

3877 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39085 points

40609 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41542 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37797 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points

34371 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points

45743 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

926 MHz

1168 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz

1284 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

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256 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

41.09 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s

164.4 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.94 TFLOPS

5.26 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586

218th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2018 October

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

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 470 beats the Radeon RX 580 2048SP in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon RX 470 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 470 over the Radeon RX 580 2048SP.