Radeon RX 460 2GB vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 480, which has core clock speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 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.

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Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
Radeon RX 460 2GB		117 Sol/s
	Difference: 163 (139%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 480 should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 150144 (134%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 will be a lot (more or less 164%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 100240 (164%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18400 (106%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.