GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460, which comes with GPU core speed of 1090 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 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 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 3698 (195%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 41 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 should be 14% quicker than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 13504 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is quite a bit (approximately 112%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32240 (112%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti will be a lot (more or less 24%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4160 (24%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core 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 also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.