Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2010 Aug 2016
Generation Northern Islands Arctic Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1050 MHz 1750 MHz
Base Clock 1090 MHz
Boost Clock 1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 128bit
Bandwidth 134.4GB/s 112.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 14 14
Shading Units 1120 896
TMUs 56 56
ROPs 32 16
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 28.80 GPixel/s 19.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 50.40 GTexel/s 67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.016 TFLOPS 2.150 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 2.150 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 134.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Barts Baffin
GPU Variant Barts XT(215-0798000) Baffin PRO
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1.7 billion 3 billion
Die Size 255 mm² 123 mm²
Board Design
TDP 151W 75W
Suggested PSU 450 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan N/A 1.2
Shader Model 5.0 6.4