AMD Radeon RX 460 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon RX 460

AMD 2016-08
G

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

AMD 2013-05

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2016
May 2013
Generation
Arctic Islands
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1090 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1200 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1200 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
153.6GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
14
20
Shading Units
896
1280
TMUs
56
80
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
19.20 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
67.20 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.150 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
2.150 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
134.4 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Baffin
Neptune
GPU Variant
Baffin PRO
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
123 mm²
212 mm²

Board Design

TDP
75W
100W
Suggested PSU
250 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
1,754
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
776
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
3
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
12
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
22
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