Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with a clock speed of 1168 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 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 570		12108 points
Radeon RX 460		5595 points
	Difference: 6513 (116%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 117376 (105%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be a lot (more or less 145%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88464 (145%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19936 (114%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.