AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1206 MHz vs 1000 MHz
• Around 72% higher texture fill rate: 137.5 GTexel / s vs 80 GTexel / s
• Around 60% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1280
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 225 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• 5.5x more memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
• 2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 111.543 vs 55.001
• Around 91% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1817.005 vs 952.668
• 5.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 9.511 vs 1.767
• Around 55% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 99.875 vs 64.456
• Around 74% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 511.362 vs 294.215
• Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 9983 vs 6821
• Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 9983 vs 6821
• 2.2x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3696 vs 1651

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

• 522.4x better floating-point performance: 2,560 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
• 2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 77430 vs 34433
• Around 52% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3716 vs 2443
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 1674
• Around 52% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3716 vs 2443
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 1674

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	34433 77430
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	111.543 55.001
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1817.005 952.668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9.511 1.767
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	99.875 64.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	511.362 294.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9983 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2443 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1674 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9983 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2443 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1674 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	3696 1651

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