GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units 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 1050		6657 points
Radeon RX 460		5595 points
	Difference: 1062 (19%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 will be 2% quicker than the Radeon RX 460 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 2688 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is a little bit (more or less 13%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6880 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (more or less 148%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25888 (148%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could 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 colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.