GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which features clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 560 should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 5888 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be a lot (more or less 107%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38800 (107%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) will be a little bit (about 11%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 560, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2000 (11%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.