Radeon R7 M260X vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 460 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R7 M260X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is much (more or less 208%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 41240 (208%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260X, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10840 (164%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.