GeForce GTX 460 1GB vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 760, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this particular card. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460 1GB		160 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB		115200 MB/sec
	Difference: 77056 (67%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a lot (more or less 149%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56280 (149%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9760 (45%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.