Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon RX 460

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 460

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 460

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon RX 460
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsBaffin (Baffin PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders512vs896
Compute Units8vs14
Core clock300 MHzvs1090 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon RX 460
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8Radeon RX 460
TDP65 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better