GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which features clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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 260		182 Watts
	Difference: 107 Watts (143%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 2GB is 0% faster than the GeForce GTX 260 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 260		111888 MB/sec
	Difference: 112 (0%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be quite a bit (more or less 66%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 260. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260		36864 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24176 (66%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 2GB is superior to the GeForce GTX 260, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260		16128 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1312 (8%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel 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 get to the max fill rate.