GeForce GTX 460 SE 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 460 SE		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 460 2GB, in theory, should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 SE in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be quite a bit (more or less 96%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29840 (96%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 SE is superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3360 (19%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel 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 ability to reach the maximum fill rate.