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

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) comes with a core clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 850 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 336 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which has GPU core speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380 4G should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) in general. (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 should be much (more or less 198%) faster with regards to 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 will be a lot (approximately 49%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM), and able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)

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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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)

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Radeon R9 380 4G

Amazon.com

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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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