AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Price

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$ 4438.00

$ 539.99

$ 3898.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1827 points

18321 points

902% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS

374 FPS

336 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

261 FPS

234 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

344 FPS

306 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

151 FPS

137 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3668 points

4804 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points

168118 points

400% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points

186034 points

341% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz

2245 MHz

86% 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

116% significantly lower TDP

260 W

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.94 TFLOPS

46 TFLOPS

831% significantly better floating point performance

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586

12th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2023 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

Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 7900 GRE benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 470 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 GRE at 260 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE is better than the Radeon RX 470.