GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 560 should in theory be just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 465 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
	Difference: 12096 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be much (about 182%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48492 (182%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 465 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 624 (3%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount 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 calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends 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 max fill rate.