GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (167%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 460 should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 465 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
	Difference: 9408 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be quite a bit (about 129%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34332 (129%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 will be just a bit (about 11%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 460, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1984 (11%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.