GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which comes with core clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 460		5595 points
GeForce GTX 860M		4340 points
	Difference: 1255 (29%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 460 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 860M overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (75%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M will be a lot (more or less 25%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15472 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4688 (37%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 are applied 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 higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.