Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon R5 340X OEM

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 340X 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon R5 340X 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 R5 340X OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460Radeon R5 340X OEM
TDP75 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better