GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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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.

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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		290 Sol/s
Radeon RX 460 2GB		117 Sol/s
	Difference: 173 (148%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be 76% quicker than the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 84608 (76%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is much (approximately 78%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 47392 (78%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be quite a bit (more or less 314%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54848 (314%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.