GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which has core speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 460		2557 points
	Difference: 9199 (360%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 470, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 124800 (144%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 will be a lot (about 214%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 80728 (214%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be a lot (approximately 83%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 460, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13432 (83%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

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