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Radeon RX 470
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VRAM
4 GB
CUDA
2,048
FP32
4.94 TF
Bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
TDP
120W
Boost
1206 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
FP32 compute4.94 TFLOPS5%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth211.2 GB/s12%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity4 GB13%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units2,0489%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency13/10022%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy6,840pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)2,880pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)884spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute36,000pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming19
Ray tracing16
AI / Compute15
Creator / 3D17
Power efficiency13
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 23 fps
1080p
42
1440p
18
4K
9
Counter-Strike 2avg 57 fps
1080p
112
1440p
42
4K
18
Fortniteavg 49 fps
1080p
85
1440p
47
4K
16
Battlefield 5avg 56 fps
1080p
81
1440p
56
4K
31
Far Cry 5avg 41 fps
1080p
59
1440p
42
4K
22
Valorantavg 144 fps
1080p
141
1440p
179
4K
112
Average FPS across all PC games
1080p
74fps
1440p
36fps
4K
34fps
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($179) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
1080p
$2.74
1440p
$4.95
4K
$5.12
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners love it as a great budget card that handles 1080p gaming fine. The usual gripe is that the 4 GB VRAM gets maxed out in newer, heavier games.
Pros
- Stays cool in tight cases
- Handles 1080p gaming well
- Great for budget PC builds
- Quiet under normal loads
Cons
- 4GB VRAM limits newer games
- Lacks modern ray tracing support
- Power draw is higher than expected
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 2,048
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- L2 cache
- 2 MB
Memory
- Size
- 4 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 211.2 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1650 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 926 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1206 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 4.94 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 4.94 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 39 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 154.4 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 120W
- Suggested PSU
- 250W
- Power connectors
- 1x 6-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Length
- 241 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 (12_0)
- Shader Model
- 6.4
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- 1.2.131
Verdict
Our verdict on the RX 470
The RX 470 is a midrange GCN 4.0 card that trades top-end speed for surprisingly quiet and cool operation.
Get it if you're building a budget 1080p gaming rig and can find one cheap for older titles. Skip it if you want to play modern games at higher settings or need ray tracing support.
Buy it if…
- You want a cheap 1080p card for esports and older games.
- You need a basic upgrade from integrated graphics in a budget build.
- You're building a retro or secondary gaming PC on a tight budget.
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