GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 560 should theoretically be a little bit better than the GeForce GTX 465 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
	Difference: 12096 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be a lot (approximately 182%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48492 (182%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 is a small bit (about 3%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 560, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 624 (3%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.