AMD Radeon RX 460 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 460

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1200MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +90%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Unknown

Arctic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

32

-

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

67.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

2.150 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.150 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

134.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Tahiti

Baffin PRO

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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

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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