AMD Radeon RX 460 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 460 AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +76%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

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Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2013

Arctic Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

32

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

67.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

2.150 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.150 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

134.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Tahiti

Baffin PRO

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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