Radeon RX 460 Mobile vs Radeon R9 M290X
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 460 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1180MHz vs 900MHz)
Lower TDP (55W vs 100W)
Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 460 Mobile
2115
Radeon R9 M290X
+8%
2304
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Jan 2014
Mobility Radeon
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1180 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.00GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
20
896
Shading Units
1280
56
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
18.88 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
66.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
2.115 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.115 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
132.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
55W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Baffin
GPU Name
Neptune
Baffin XT
GPU Variant
Neptune XT
(216-0847000)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
