AMD Radeon RX 460 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon RX 460 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

37% slightly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1768 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21824 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20340 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

22320 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10718 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18277 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24052 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1090 MHz

263% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

2000 MHz

66% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

45 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

19.2 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.15 TFLOPS

4% slightly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

75% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

75% 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

309th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2021 January

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

4.6

Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon Vega 8 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 460 beats the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 460 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 460 at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 460 is better than the Radeon Vega 8.