AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +25%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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Radeon RX 460

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

14

1536

Shading Units

896

96

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.150 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.150 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

134.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Baffin

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Baffin PRO

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

3 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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