Radeon RX Vega 56 vs Radeon RX 460 1024SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX Vega 56 Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1471MHz vs 1200MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 460 1024SP Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX Vega 56
+328%
10540
Radeon RX 460 1024SP
2458
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Jan 2017
Vega
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1156 MHz
Base Clock
1090 MHz
1471 MHz
Boost Clock
1200 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
2048bit
Memory Bus
128bit
409.6GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
16
3584
Shading Units
1024
224
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
94.14 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.20 GPixel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.80 GTexel/s
21.09 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
2.458 TFLOPS
10.54 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.458 TFLOPS
659.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
75W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Baffin
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Baffin XT
GCN 5.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
3 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
