GeForce GTX 750 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750		55 Watts
Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 750 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be a lot (more or less 87%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 750. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		32640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28400 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 2GB is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		16320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1120 (7%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be 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 higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few 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.