GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 460, which comes with a core clock speed of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, 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

Radeon RX 460		5595 points
GeForce GTX 960M		4350 points
	Difference: 1245 (29%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be a lot (more or less 39%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17200 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is superior to the Radeon RX 460, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 96 (1%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.