GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which has core clock speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5500 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 120576 (111%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a lot (approximately 304%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 110560 (304%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32640 (157%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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