Quadro FX 470 vs Radeon RX 560

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking463not rated
Place by popularity64not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.48no data
Power efficiency8.73no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code namePolaris 21C79
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)12 September 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$99 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores102416
Core clock speed1175 MHz580 MHz
Boost clock speed1275 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,000 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt38 Watt
Texture fill rate81.604.640
Floating-point processing power2.611 TFLOPS0.0448 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs648

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 x8PCI
Length170 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/sno data

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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.44.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 12 September 2007
Chip lithography 14 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 38 Watt

RX 560 has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

FX 470, on the other hand, has 97.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 560 and Quadro FX 470. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 560 is a desktop card while Quadro FX 470 is a workstation one.


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