GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which features core speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs 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 GTS 450		1453 points
	Difference: 4142 (285%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce GTS 450		106 Watts
	Difference: 31 Watts (41%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 460 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce GTS 450 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 450		57728 MB/sec
	Difference: 54272 (94%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be much (approximately 144%) better at AF than the GeForce GTS 450. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450		25056 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35984 (144%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be a lot (about 39%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTS 450, and also capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 450		12528 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4912 (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.