Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which has core clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 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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Radeon HD 7950		235 Sol/s
Radeon RX 460 2GB		117 Sol/s
	Difference: 118 (101%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon HD 7950		200 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (167%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7950, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128000 (114%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7950 is a lot (about 47%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28560 (47%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7950 is superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8160 (47%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.