AMD Radeon RX 460 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Compare AMD Radeon RX 460 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470 8 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

816 points

1827 points

123% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

38 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

27 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

38 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

14 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1768 points

3668 points

107% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

17920 points

38292 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21824 points

39085 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20340 points

41542 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

22320 points

41978 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18277 points

33559 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24052 points

42112 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1090 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

926 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

1206 MHz

0.50% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

211 GB/s

88% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

19.2 Gigapixels/s

38.59 Gigapixels/s

100% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigatexels/s

154.4 Gigatexels/s

129% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.15 TFLOPS

4.94 TFLOPS

129% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

2048

128% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

128% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

278th of 586

219th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon RX 470 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 470 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 460 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 460 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the Radeon RX 470 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 470 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 460 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 470 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 470 is faster than the Radeon RX 460.