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GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

The GeForce GTX 470 features a core clock frequency of 607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 837 MHz. It also uses a 320-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 448 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 40 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units 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

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

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 470 should in theory be a bit superior to the Radeon RX 460 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be quite a bit (more or less 80%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 470 is a better choice, by a large margin. (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

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Model	GeForce GTX 470	Radeon RX 460
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	March 2010	August 2016
Code Name	GF100	Polaris 11
Memory	1280 MB	4096 MB
Core Speed	607 MHz	1090 MHz
Memory Speed	3348 MHz	7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	215 watts	75 watts
Bandwidth	133920 MB/sec	112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	33992 Mtexels/sec	61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	24280 Mpixels/sec	17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	448	896
Texture Mapping Units	56	56
Render Output Units	40	16
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	320-bit	128-bit
Fab Process	40 nm	14 nm
Transistors	3000 million	3000 million
Bus	PCIe x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 11	DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.1	OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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