AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 4438.00
$ 749.99
$ 3688.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1827 points
14445 points
690% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS
292 FPS
255 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS
213 FPS
186 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS
260 FPS
223 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
124 FPS
110 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3668 points
4221 points
15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

41978 points
224476 points
434% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points
176249 points
425% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points
177326 points
321% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

926 MHz
1890 MHz
104% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz
2310 MHz
91% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
16 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

211 GB/s
576 GB/s
172% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
179% significantly lower TDP
335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.59 Gigapixels/s
295.7 Gigapixels/s
666% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s
739.2 Gigatexels/s
378% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.94 TFLOPS
23.65 TFLOPS
378% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
5120
150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
320
150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
128
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586
20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6950 XT beats the Radeon RX 470 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6950 XT has a significantly 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 6950 XT 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 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 470 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 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 6950 XT is better than the Radeon RX 470.

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