Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 460
    441%
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 341% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsOland ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders896vs320
Compute Units14vs5
Core clock1090 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs56vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP75 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 460
    8080
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830

Points (higher is better)