Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon HD 7970
Summary
Radeon RX 460
100%
Radeon HD 7970
133%
Relative performance
Radeon RX 460
100%
Radeon HD 7970
123%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460 |
175 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 . |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 7970 |
23% higher gaming performance. |
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970
The Radeon HD 7970 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 460 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
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GPU Name | Baffin (Baffin PRO) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XT) |
Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 123 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
Transistors | 3,000 million | vs | 4,313 million |
Shaders | 896 | vs | 2048 |
Compute Units | 14 | vs | 32 |
Core clock | 1090 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 56 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 460 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 384 bit |
Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | vs | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 460 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
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TDP | 75 watts | vs | 250 watts |
Release Date | 29 Jun 2016 | vs | 22 Dec 2011 |
Radeon RX 460
19.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 7970
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
67.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 7970
118.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
112.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7970
264.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
2150.40 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7970
3789.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
8080
Radeon HD 7970
10760
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
Radeon RX 460
43
Radeon HD 7970
54
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
Radeon RX 460
32
Radeon HD 7970
39
FPS (higher is better)