AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 460

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti Baffin
GPU variant Tahiti XTL (215-0821065) Baffin PRO
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Manufacturing process 28 nm 14 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 3,000 million
Die size 352 mm² 123 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 8th, 2013 Aug 8th, 2016
Generation Volcanic Islands Arctic Islands
Production End-of-life Active
Launch price 299 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Reviews 105 in our database
Predecessor Sea Islands Pirate Islands
Successor Pirate Islands Polaris

Clocks

Base clock 850 MHz 1090 MHz
Boost clock 1000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory clock 1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective 1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 112.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2048 896
TMUs 128 56
ROPs 32 16
Compute units 32 14
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 768 KB 1024 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 32.00 GPixel/s 19.20 GPixel/s
Texture rate 128.0 GTexel/s 67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 4.096 TFLOPS 2.150 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 1,024 GFLOPS (1:4) 134.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (half) performance 2.150 TFLOPS (1:1)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches 170 mm 6.7 inches
Width 109 mm 4.3 inches
Height 36 mm 1.4 inches
TDP 250 W 75 W
Suggested PSU 600 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Board number C386 C994

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 5.1 6.4

Other Features

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