GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which has GPU clock speed of 1090 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation 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 570		4387 points
	Difference: 1208 (28%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 144 Watts (192%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 570 should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (36%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be a lot (about 39%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17120 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is superior to the Radeon RX 460, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11840 (68%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.