GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which has clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs as well as 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 460		5595 points
GeForce GTX 860M		4340 points
	Difference: 1255 (29%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 460 should in theory be much better than the GeForce GTX 860M overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (75%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M will be a lot (more or less 25%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15472 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be quite a bit (about 37%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 860M, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4688 (37%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.