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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) has a core clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 850 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 336 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 825 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) will be 70% quicker than the Radeon R7 M260X in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 108800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 44800 (70%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should be much (more or less 84%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 36400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X 19800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16600 (84%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should be a lot (about 215%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 M260X, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 14200 (215%)

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 R7 M260X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 June 2014
Code Name GF104 Opal
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 825 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36400 Mtexels/sec 19800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 6600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 384
Texture Mapping Units 56 24
Render Output Units 32 8
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1950 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 of the card - the lower the memory 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 R7 M260X

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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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