GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which has clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 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 650		2263 points
	Difference: 3332 (147%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 460 should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 650 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be quite a bit (more or less 80%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27184 (80%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 512 (3%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.