AMD Radeon HD 8870M
VS
AMD Radeon Pro 460
AMD Radeon HD 8870M
VS
AMD Radeon Pro 460

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8870M and AMD Radeon Pro 460. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

517
Place in performance rating
339
GCN
Architecture
Polaris
Venus
Code name
Baffin
Laptop
Type
Mobile workstation
18 December 2012 (8 years ago)
Release date
8 August 2016 (5 years ago)
$338
Price now
$100
0.61
Value for money
36.89
Venus
GPU code name
Polaris 11 / Baffin XT
Laptop
Market segment
Mobile workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 8870M and AMD Radeon Pro 460 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

640
Pipelines
1024
725 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
775 MHz
Boost Clock
907 MHz
1,500 million
Transistor count
3,000 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
no data
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
31.00
Texture fill rate
58.05
992.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,858 gflops
640
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
775 MHz
Boost clock speed
907 MHz
1,500 million
Number of transistors
3,000 million
no data
Thermal design power (TDP)
35 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 8870M and AMD Radeon Pro 460.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
no data
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 8870M and AMD Radeon Pro 460 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5, DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
4500 MHz
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
72 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
81.28 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8870M and AMD Radeon Pro 460, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 8870M and AMD Radeon Pro 460 is the additional functionality.

no data
FreeSync
+
no data
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 8870M and AMD Radeon Pro 460. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
no data
Vulkan
1.2.131
no data
Shader Model
6.4
no data
OpenCL
2.0

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 8870M and AMD Radeon Pro 460 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 8870M or AMD Radeon Pro 460 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8870M
AMD Radeon Pro 460
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8870M
AMD Radeon Pro 460
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8870M
AMD Radeon Pro 460
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8870M
AMD Radeon Pro 460
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8870M
AMD Radeon Pro 460
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8870M

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of AMD Radeon Pro 460

8.4% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($100 vs $338)

More pipelines (1024 vs 640)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 GB)

More memory bandwidth (81.28 GB/s vs 72 GB/s)

So, AMD Radeon HD 8870M or AMD Radeon Pro 460?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon Pro 460 .

AMD Radeon HD 8870M versus AMD Radeon Pro 460 performance benchmarks comparison

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