Radeon R3 Graphics vs RX 460 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking441not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency12.90no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameBaffinBeema
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date8 August 2016 (8 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$86 no data

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 cores896128
Core clock speed1000 MHz267 MHz
Boost clock speed1180 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate66.084.800
Floating-point processing power2.115 TFLOPS0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs568

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)IGP
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth80 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 August 2016 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 15 Watt

RX 460 Mobile has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

R3 Graphics, on the other hand, has 266.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 460 Mobile and Radeon R3 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 460 Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon R3 Graphics is a desktop one.


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