Radeon R9 M395X vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which comes with clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon R9 M395X		125 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M395X should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		160000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (43%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X is a lot (approximately 52%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		92544 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31504 (52%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X will be a lot (about 33%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		23136 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5696 (33%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.