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GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 SE comes with clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 850 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 288 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 550, which has GPU clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 512 Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550 50 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE 150 Watts
Difference: 100 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 550 is 5% quicker than the GeForce GTX 460 SE overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 550 114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 5888 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 will be just a bit (more or less 13%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon RX 550 35200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4000 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 SE should be a bit (approximately 18%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3200 (18%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 460 SE Radeon RX 550
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 April 2017
Code Name GF104 Polaris 12
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 35200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 288 512
Texture Mapping Units 48 32
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1950 million 2200 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 SE

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Radeon RX 550

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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