GeForce GTX 460 SE 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 works at a speed of 1502 MHz on this specific model. It features 1152 SPUs along with 96 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 760, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 460 SE in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 83456 (77%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is much (approximately 202%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62880 (202%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the GeForce GTX 460 SE, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10560 (51%)

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 transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.