GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which has GPU clock speed of 1090 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, 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 960M		4350 points
	Difference: 1245 (29%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 will be 75% quicker than the GeForce GTX 960M overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be much (about 39%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17200 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is superior to the Radeon RX 460, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 96 (1%)

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

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.