GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1090 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176384 (157%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is much (about 207%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 126448 (207%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22736 (130%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 are applied in one second. This figure 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 video 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.