Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon HD 4770

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
Radeon HD 4770
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Apr 2009
Radeon HD 4770

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 460
    451%
  • Radeon HD 4770
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 351% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4770

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 460

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460

The Radeon RX 460 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 4770
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsRV740 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs137 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs826 million
Shaders896vs640
Compute Units14vs8
Core clock1090 MHzvs750 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 4770
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 4770
TDP75 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs28 Apr 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4770
    12.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4770
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4770
    51.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4770
    960.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 460
    8080
  • Radeon HD 4770
    1790

Points (higher is better)