NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 460 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

346% significantly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

72 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

242% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1768 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

17920 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21824 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

20340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

22320 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24052 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

38% slightly higher core clock speed

1090 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

460% significantly higher pixel rate

19.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

200% significantly higher texture rate

67.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

200% significantly better floating point performance

2.15 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

114% significantly more shading units

896

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

114% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

278th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 460 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 460 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 460 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the Radeon RX 460.