AMD Radeon RX 460 vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 460

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1200MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 460 +13%

2.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Mar 2015

Arctic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

16

-

896

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

67.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

2.150 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.150 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

134.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Baffin PRO

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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