GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features a core clock speed of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5500 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 460 SE overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is much (more or less 371%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 115760 (371%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is superior to the GeForce GTX 460 SE, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.