Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 460
    193%
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 93% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7770 GHz Edition

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7770 GHz Edition
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders896vs640
Compute Units14vs10
Core clock1090 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
TDP75 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs15 Feb 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    40.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    1280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 460
    8080
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    4170

Points (higher is better)