Radeon RX 460 vs GeForce GTX 470
Summary
Radeon RX 460
172%
GeForce GTX 470
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460 |
| 140 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 470 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 72% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce GTX 470 |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 RX 460 | | GeForce GTX 470 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Baffin (Baffin PRO) | vs | GF100 (GF100-275-A3) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 123 mm² | vs | 529 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,000 million | vs | 3,100 million |
| Shaders | 896 | vs | 448 |
| Compute Units | 14 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 1090 MHz | vs | 608 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 40 |
| TMUs | 56 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 460 | | GeForce GTX 470 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 320 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | vs | 837 MHz
3348 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1280 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 460 | | GeForce GTX 470 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 215 watts |
| Release Date | 29 Jun 2016 | vs | 26 Mar 2010 |
Radeon RX 460
19.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 470
17.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
67.20 GT/s
GeForce GTX 470
34.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
112.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 470
134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
2150.40 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 470
1089.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
8080
GeForce GTX 470
4680
Points (higher is better)