Comparison of Radeon R9 280X and Radeon RX 470

Attribute	Radeon R9 280X ×	Radeon RX 470 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2013	2016
Reference card	AMD Radeon R9 280X 850 MHz 3 GB	-
GPU brand	AMD	AMD
GPU name	Tahiti	Ellesmere
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	850	926
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,000	1,206
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	Radeon R9 280X	Radeon RX 470
Memory
Memory (MB)	3,072	4,096
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	288	211.2
Memory bus (bit)	384	256
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,500	1,650
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	6,000	6,600
Noise and power
TDP (W)	250	120
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	32	38.6
Render output processors	32	32
^1↑Texture mapping units	128	128
Shading units	2,048	2,048
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	4,096	4,940
Compute units	32	32
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	128	154.4
Benchmarks
Crysis 3	-	48.9
Battlefield 4	39.9	77
Face detection (mPixels/s)	95.62	111.59
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3356.04	3356.82
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3709.16	3707.56
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	468.39	511.36
Sky Diver Factor	380.99	383.43
Thief	33.6	-
Fire Strike Factor	62.73	67.3