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GeForce GTX 460 SE vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 SE features a GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 850 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 288 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 960, which has a clock speed of 1127 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960 120 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE 150 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 960 should in theory be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 460 SE in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be a lot (about 131%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 40928 (131%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is much (approximately 73%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 460 SE, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 20800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15264 (73%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 460 SE GeForce GTX 960
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year November 2010 January 2015
Code Name GF104 GM206
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1127 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 72128 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 36064 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 288 1024
Texture Mapping Units 48 64
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1950 million 2940 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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