Radeon R5 M330 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460, which comes with clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 460 should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R5 M330 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be quite a bit (about 196%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is quite a bit (more or less 112%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R5 M330, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.