GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1080		21942 points
Radeon RX 460		5595 points
	Difference: 16347 (292%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1080 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 460 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be a lot (more or less 321%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be much (more or less 490%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 460, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.