GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units 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 470		2937 points
	Difference: 2658 (91%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (187%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 470 should theoretically be a little bit better than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 21920 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be a lot (about 80%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27048 (80%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be quite a bit (more or less 39%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 460, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6840 (39%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out 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 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output 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 maximum fill rate.