GeForce GT 310 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which features 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 comprised of 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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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

The Radeon RX 460 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 310 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is much (more or less 1195%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution 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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.