Compare any two graphics cards:
VS

GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 SE comes with a GPU core speed of 650 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 850 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 288 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 550, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550 50 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE 150 Watts
Difference: 100 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 550 should in theory be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 SE in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 550 114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 5888 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 is a small bit (about 13%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon RX 550 35200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4000 (13%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 SE is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3200 (18%)

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

Display Prices

Hide Prices

GeForce GTX 460 SE

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

Radeon RX 550

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

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.

Specifications

Display Specifications

Hide Specifications

Model GeForce GTX 460 SE Radeon RX 550
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 April 2017
Code Name GF104 Polaris 12
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 35200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 288 512
Texture Mapping Units 48 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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

Display Prices

Hide Prices

GeForce GTX 460 SE

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

Radeon RX 550

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

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.

Comments

Be the first to leave a comment!

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


*

WordPress Anti Spam by WP-SpamShield