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Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

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The Radeon R7 260X has core clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs 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 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 460 2GB 117 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X 95 Sol/s
Difference: 22 (23%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
Radeon R7 260X 115 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 460 2GB will be 8% quicker than the Radeon R7 260X overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X 104000 MB/sec
Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be a small bit (approximately 1%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 61600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 560 (1%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 160 (1%)

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

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Model Radeon R7 260X Radeon RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2013 August 2016
Code Name Bonaire XTX Polaris 11
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1100 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 6500 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 115 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 104000 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 61600 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17600 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 896 896
Texture Mapping Units 56 56
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2080 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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