GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that 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 makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 SE overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 120576 (111%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be much (more or less 371%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 115760 (371%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32640 (157%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

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