GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 560 should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 5888 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is quite a bit (about 107%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38800 (107%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2000 (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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.