GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 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 GT 440 1.5GB		840 points
	Difference: 4755 (566%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 19 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 460 should in theory be much faster than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 68800 (159%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be quite a bit (about 328%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46784 (328%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 is superior to the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.