GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 460, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 130 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 100000 (833%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be quite a bit (more or less 409%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 49040 (409%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is much (about 118%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 130, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9440 (118%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high 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 texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.