GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which features GPU core speed of 1090 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 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 970M		7520 points
Radeon RX 460		5595 points
	Difference: 1925 (34%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 460 should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is a lot (more or less 21%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12880 (21%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970M is superior to the Radeon RX 460, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26912 (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.