AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8470

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 1 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

3023 points

10696% significantly better overall score

28 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

6589% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

785 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

6386% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

785 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

207% significantly higher core clock speed

750 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

300% significantly more memory

1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

35 W

205% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

555th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon HD 8470 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8470 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6500 XT has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8470 has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 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 6500 XT over the Radeon HD 8470.