GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460, which has core clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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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

GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
Radeon RX 460		5595 points
	Difference: 1062 (19%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1050 should theoretically be a little bit superior to the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 2688 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be just a bit (about 13%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6880 (13%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the Radeon RX 460, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25888 (148%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels 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 Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.