GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460, which features core 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 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 470		2937 points
	Difference: 2658 (91%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (187%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 470 will be 20% quicker than the Radeon RX 460 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 21920 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be much (more or less 80%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27048 (80%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 470 is superior to the Radeon RX 460, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6840 (39%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out 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 DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed 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 the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.