GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator 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 be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan should be much (more or less 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 running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is a better choice, by a large margin. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.