GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 950, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1024 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1652 MHz on this model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
GeForce GTX 460		2557 points
	Difference: 3979 (156%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 950, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 19328 (22%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 should be much (approximately 30%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11352 (30%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16568 (102%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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