GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 560		3030 points
	Difference: 2565 (85%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 560 should theoretically be a bit superior to the Radeon RX 460 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16128 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be much (approximately 35%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15680 (35%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 is much (approximately 49%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 460, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8480 (49%)

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 moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.