GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which has clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator 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 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon RX 460 2GB		117 Sol/s
	Difference: 436 (373%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1080 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 215680 (193%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is much (more or less 321%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 196080 (321%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 85408 (490%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 in a second.

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