Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon HD 8670 OEM

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
Radeon HD 8670 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8670 OEM

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 460
    292%
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 192% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 8670 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 8670 OEM
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders896vs384
Compute Units14vs6
Core clock1090 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs56vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 8670 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 8670 OEM
TDP75 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 460
    8080
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    2760

Points (higher is better)