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Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

The Radeon HD 6870 features a clock frequency of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1050 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1120 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 460, which comes with GPU core speed of 1090 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 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 460 5595 points
Radeon HD 6870 2870 points
Difference: 2725 (95%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 75 Watts
Radeon HD 6870 151 Watts
Difference: 76 Watts (101%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6870 should be 20% faster than the Radeon RX 460 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 134400 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 22400 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be much (about 21%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6870. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6870 50400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10640 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6870 will be a lot (about 65%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 28800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 11360 (65%)

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 HD 6870 Radeon RX 460
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2010 August 2016
Code Name Barts XT Polaris 11
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 900 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 4200 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 151 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 134400 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 50400 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 28800 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1120 896
Texture Mapping Units 56 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1700 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6870

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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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