AMD Radeon R7 M460 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

VS

AMD Radeon R7 M460

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M460 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 M460 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1024MHz vs 775MHz)

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 M460

0.786 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M +26%

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M460

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Apr 2013

Gem System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

36.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

10

-

384

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.192 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Meso

GPU Name

Venus

Meso XT (216-0864018)

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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