GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 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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GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
Radeon RX 460 2GB		117 Sol/s
	Difference: 145 (124%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (93%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 970 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is a lot (approximately 79%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48160 (79%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49760 (285%)

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 over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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