GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 460, which has a GPU core 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 SPUs, 56 TAUs, 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 460		2557 points
	Difference: 3038 (119%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 460 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 460 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (30%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be quite a bit (about 61%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23240 (61%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1240 (8%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock 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 output rate also depends on quite a few 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.