Radeon RX 460 2GB vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700, which features clock speeds of 1465 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5700 should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 346752 (310%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is quite a bit (approximately 246%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 149920 (246%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be much (more or less 438%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 76320 (438%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.