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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) has a core clock speed of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 850 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 336 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this card. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 150 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G 190 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380 4G, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 73600 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G will be much (about 198%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 36400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 72240 (198%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G should be quite a bit (more or less 49%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM), and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 20800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10240 (49%)

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 (OEM) Radeon R9 380 4G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 June 2015
Code Name GF104 Antigua PRO
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36400 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 1792
Texture Mapping Units 56 112
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1950 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)

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Radeon R9 380 4G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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