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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

The GeForce GTX 970 features core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1664 SPUs as well as 104 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs 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

GeForce GTX 970 10867 points
Radeon RX 460 5595 points
Difference: 5272 (94%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 970 145 Watts
Difference: 70 Watts (93%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 970 should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 224000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 112000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 should be much (more or less 79%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 61040 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 48160 (79%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be quite a bit (about 285%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 460, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 49760 (285%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 970 Radeon RX 460
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2014 August 2016
Code Name GM204-200 Polaris 11
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1050 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 224000 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 109200 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 67200 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1664 896
Texture Mapping Units 104 56
Render Output Units 64 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 5200 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel 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.

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GeForce GTX 970

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Radeon RX 460

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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