GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which features a clock speed of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 460 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 142976 (165%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be much (approximately 289%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109160 (289%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is superior to the GeForce GTX 460, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37240 (230%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.