Radeon RX 460 2GB vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 560, which features core clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 560 should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 2688 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be much (about 23%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14160 (23%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 560 is superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, but only just. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1360 (8%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.