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Radeon RX 460 2GB vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The Radeon RX 460 2GB comes with a core clock frequency of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500, which features a core clock frequency of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 117376 (105%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a lot (about 141%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 85920 (141%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be quite a bit (more or less 206%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 36000 (206%)

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 Radeon RX 460 2GB Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year August 2016 October 2019
Code Name Polaris 11 Navi 14 XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1090 MHz 1670 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 112000 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 61040 Mtexels/sec 146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17440 Mpixels/sec 53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 896 1408
Texture Mapping Units 56 88
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 7 nm
Transistors 3000 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends 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.

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Radeon RX 460 2GB

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Radeon RX 5500

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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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