AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

AMD Radeon RX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1471MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +390%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +297%

6878

Radeon RX 460

1730

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +900%

30

Radeon RX 460

3

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +375%

57

Radeon RX 460

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +295%

87

Radeon RX 460

22

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Radeon RX 460

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

Vega

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

14

-

3584

Shading Units

896

224

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.20 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.150 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.150 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

134.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Baffin

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Baffin PRO

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

3 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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