GeForce GT 310 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 310		31 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 44 Watts (142%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 460 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 310 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 310		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (600%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be a lot (about 1195%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56328 (1195%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15084 (640%)

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 within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.