GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 should be just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 SE overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be much (more or less 96%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29840 (96%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 SE is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 can be processed per second. This figure is calculated 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.