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GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 790 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 144 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 24 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which has a clock frequency of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, 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 GT 450 (OEM) 106 Watts
Difference: 31 Watts (41%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should be 17% faster than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 16000 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be much (more or less 222%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 18960 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 42080 (222%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) is superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM) 18960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1520 (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 GeForce GT 450 (OEM) Radeon RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 August 2016
Code Name GF106 Polaris 11
Memory 1536 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 790 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 106 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 96000 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 18960 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 18960 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 144 896
Texture Mapping Units 24 56
Render Output Units 24 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1170 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 450 (OEM)

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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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