GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460, which has a clock speed of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (167%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 460 is 9% quicker than the GeForce GTX 465 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
	Difference: 9408 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be a lot (about 129%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34332 (129%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 465 is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1984 (11%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.