Radeon RX 460 and Radeon HD 7870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon HD 7870
Radeon RX 460
4225
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Radeon RX 460
Radeon HD 7870
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Polaris 11 / Baffin XT
Pitcairn XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
March 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1200 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1090 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,150 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
2800 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
67.20
80.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-