AMD Radeon RX 460 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 460

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950 +4%

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Dec 2010

Arctic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

22

-

896

Shading Units

1408

56

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

67.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

2.150 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.150 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

134.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Cayman

Baffin PRO

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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