GeForce GTX 460 1GB vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with GPU core speed of 1175 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 1GB		160 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 460 1GB should theoretically be just a bit superior to the Radeon RX 560 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 1GB		115200 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 512 (0%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be a lot (about 99%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 37400 (99%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 1GB is superior to the Radeon RX 560, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 1GB		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2800 (15%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.