GeForce GTX 870M vs Radeon RX 460

GeForce GTX 870M
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce GTX 870M
Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    100%
  • Radeon RX 460
    112%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 870M

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 12% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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

GeForce GTX 870MRadeon RX 460
GPU NameGK104 (N15E-GT-A2)vsBaffin (Baffin PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs14 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders1344vs896
Compute Units7vs14
Core clock941 MHzvs1090 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs112vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 870MRadeon RX 460
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 870MRadeon RX 460
TDP100 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2014vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    26.35 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    105.40 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    120.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    2529.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    7200
  • Radeon RX 460
    8080

Points (higher is better)