GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 950, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1024 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1652 MHz on this particular card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
GeForce GTX 460		2557 points
	Difference: 3979 (156%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 950 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 460 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 19328 (22%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 should be quite a bit (more or less 30%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11352 (30%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be much (approximately 102%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 460, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16568 (102%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus 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 card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the 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 called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.