Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon HD 5970

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
Radeon HD 5970
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Nov 2009
Radeon HD 5970

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 460
    109%
  • Radeon HD 5970
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

219 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5970 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 9% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5970

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5970
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsHemlock (Hemlock XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders896vs1600
Compute Units14vs20
Core clock1090 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs56vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 5970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 5970
TDP75 wattsvs294 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs18 Nov 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    46.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    116.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    256.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5970
    4640.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 460
    8080
  • Radeon HD 5970
    7410

Points (higher is better)