GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which features GPU clock speed of 1090 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 Stream Processors, 56 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.

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GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon RX 460 2GB		117 Sol/s
	Difference: 319 (273%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1070 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 150144 (134%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be quite a bit (about 196%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 119680 (196%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be much (more or less 453%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78944 (453%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.