GeForce GT 440 3GB vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460, which comes with core speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 3GB		56 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 19 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 440 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 68800 (159%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be quite a bit (approximately 328%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 440 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46784 (328%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be quite a bit (more or less 22%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 440 3GB, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3184 (22%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends 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.