AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 and AMD Radeon R9 M470X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 January 2018 vs 15 May 2016
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M470X

Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 426 vs 320
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3244 vs 1015

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	426 vs 320
PassMark - G3D Mark	3244 vs 1015

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M470X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

426

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1015

3244

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon R9 M470X
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	426
PassMark - G3D Mark	1015	3244
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3715
Geekbench - OpenCL		57109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon R9 M470X
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5th gen	GCN 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Strato
Launch date	7 January 2018	15 May 2016
Place in performance rating	449	459
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	384
Transistor count	4500 million	2,080 million
Core clock speed		1000 MHz
Floating-point performance		1,971 gflops
Pipelines		896
Texture fill rate		61.6 GTexel / s
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.0
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		96 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		6000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
DirectCompute 5.0