GeForce GTX 460 2GB vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 2GB		160 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 XT is 99% faster than the GeForce GTX 460 2GB in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 2GB		115200 MB/sec
	Difference: 114176 (99%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is quite a bit (approximately 300%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 2GB		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 113296 (300%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 460 2GB, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 2GB		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33344 (154%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.