AMD Radeon RX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

Compare AMD Radeon RX 460 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

816 points
151% significantly better overall score
325 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

18 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

17920 points
545% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21824 points
246% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6300 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20340 points
234% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6087 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

22320 points
703% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18277 points
196% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6165 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24052 points
336% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5513 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s
288% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
55 W
36% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

19.2 Gigapixels/s
16% slightly higher pixel rate
16.53 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigatexels/s
171% significantly higher texture rate
24.79 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896
133% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

56
133% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

277th of 586
369th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon RX 460 vs GeForce GTX 745 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 460 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 745 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 745 has a slightly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the Radeon RX 460 at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 460 over the GeForce GTX 745.

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