Radeon R5 430 OEM vs RX 470D

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated804
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.70
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameEllesmereOland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 October 2016 (8 years ago)30 June 2016 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1792384
Core clock speed926 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed1206 MHz780 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate135.118.72
Floating-point processing power4.322 TFLOPS0.599 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs11224

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1650 MHz1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth211.2 GB/s36.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2016 30 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 50 Watt

RX 470D has an age advantage of 3 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

R5 430 OEM, on the other hand, has 140% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 470D and Radeon R5 430 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 470D
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