Radeon HD 7870 XT and Radeon RX 460 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon RX 460
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
Radeon RX 460
4226
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Radeon RX 460
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Polaris 11 / Baffin XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
August 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
1200 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
1090 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
2,150 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
896
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
93.60
67.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+