GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX 950M

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 950M, which has core speeds of 914 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 950M		3330 points
GeForce GTX 460		2557 points
	Difference: 773 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 460 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 54400 (170%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 will be a small bit (more or less 3%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1240 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1576 (11%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels 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 number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.