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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) has a clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 850 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 336 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which has clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 150 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should in theory be just a bit better than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be quite a bit (about 68%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 36400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 24640 (68%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3360 (19%)

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 GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) Radeon RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 August 2016
Code Name GF104 Polaris 11
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36400 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 896
Texture Mapping Units 56 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1950 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)

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Radeon RX 460 2GB

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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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