Radeon R5 M330 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R5 M330 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 97600 (678%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be a lot (more or less 196%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40440 (196%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 2GB is superior to the Radeon R5 M330, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9200 (112%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.