Radeon HD 8970M vs Radeon RX 460
Summary
Radeon HD 8970M
100%
Radeon RX 460
112%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8970M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460
The Radeon RX 460 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 8970M | | Radeon RX 460 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Neptune (Neptune XT) | vs | Baffin (Baffin PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 14 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | vs | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,800 million | vs | 3,000 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 896 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 1090 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 8970M | | Radeon RX 460 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 8970M | | Radeon RX 460 | |
|---|
| TDP | 100 watts | vs | 75 watts |
| Release Date | 14 May 2013 | vs | 29 Jun 2016 |
Radeon HD 8970M
28.80 GP/s
Radeon RX 460
19.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8970M
72.00 GT/s
Radeon RX 460
67.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8970M
153.60 GB/s
Radeon RX 460
112.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 8970M
2304.00 GFLOPs
Radeon RX 460
2150.40 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 8970M
7190
Radeon RX 460
8080
Points (higher is better)