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Radeon HD 4870 512MB vs Radeon RX 460

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The Radeon HD 4870 512MB uses a 55 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which has a clock frequency of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 75 Watts
Radeon HD 4870 512MB 150 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4870 512MB, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 512MB 115200 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be much (more or less 103%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4870 512MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 512MB 30000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 31040 (103%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is a lot (approximately 45%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4870 512MB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 512MB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5440 (45%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4870 512MB Radeon RX 460
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jun 25, 2008 August 2016
Code Name RV770 XT Polaris 11
Memory 512 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 750 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 30000 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12000 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 896
Texture Mapping Units 40 56
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 14 nm
Transistors 956 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 4870 512MB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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