GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which features GPU clock speed of 1090 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 41 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 460 2GB will be 14% faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 13504 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be quite a bit (more or less 112%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32240 (112%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4160 (24%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied 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 the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.