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Radeon HD 7790 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The Radeon HD 7790 comes with core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which features clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
Radeon HD 7790 85 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 2GB is 17% faster than the Radeon HD 7790 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7790 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 16000 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be just a bit (more or less 9%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7790. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7790 56000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 5040 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB will be a little bit (approximately 9%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7790, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7790 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1440 (9%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 7790 Radeon RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year March 2013 August 2016
Code Name Bonaire XT Polaris 11
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 6000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 85 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 96000 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 56000 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16000 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 11.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 7790

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Radeon RX 460 2GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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