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Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

The Radeon RX 460 features a GPU core clock speed of 1090 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with GPU clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 470 11756 points
Radeon RX 460 5595 points
Difference: 6161 (110%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 75 Watts
Radeon RX 470 120 Watts
Difference: 45 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 470, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 211200 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 99200 (89%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be quite a bit (more or less 94%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 61040 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 57488 (94%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 29632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12192 (70%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 460 Radeon RX 470
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year August 2016 August 2016
Code Name Polaris 11 Polaris 10
Memory 4096 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1090 MHz 926 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 6600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 112000 MB/sec 211200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 61040 Mtexels/sec 118528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17440 Mpixels/sec 29632 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 896 2048
Texture Mapping Units 56 128
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 14 nm
Transistors 3000 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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