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GeForce GTX 460 2GB vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB comes with core clock speeds of 675 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 336 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 550, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550 50 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 2GB 160 Watts
Difference: 110 Watts (220%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB should theoretically perform a bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 115200 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 512 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB will be a little bit (more or less 7%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 37800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550 35200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2600 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 2GB is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4000 (23%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 460 2GB Radeon RX 550
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2010 April 2017
Code Name GF104 Polaris 12
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 160 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 37800 Mtexels/sec 35200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 512
Texture Mapping Units 56 32
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1950 million 2200 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling 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 video card can possibly record to the local memory in one 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 2GB

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Radeon RX 550

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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