Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which comes with a clock speed of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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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

Radeon RX 460		5595 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 1214 (28%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 460 should in theory be a little bit better than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be a small bit (approximately 1%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 560 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be a little bit (about 1%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 460, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 160 (1%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends 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 maximum fill rate.