ATI Radeon 7000 vs RX 460

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	429	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.12	no data
Power efficiency	9.82	no data
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name	Baffin	RV100
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	8 August 2016 (8 years ago)	19 February 2001 (23 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$86	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	896	no data
Core clock speed	1090 MHz	183 MHz
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	3,000 million	30 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	23 Watt
Texture fill rate	67.20	0.55
Floating-point processing power	2.15 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	1
TMUs	56	3

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 4x
Length	170 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	183 MHz
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	2.928 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync

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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	7.0
Shader Model	6.4	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	8 August 2016	19 February 2001
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	23 Watt

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