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GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R9 M275X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 has core speeds of 675 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 768 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 336 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M275X, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M275X		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 M275X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M275X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (20%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 is a small bit (about 5%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M275X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M275X		36000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1800 (5%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M275X		14400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1800 (13%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce GTX 460	Radeon R9 M275X
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	July 2010	May 1 2014
Code Name	GF104	Venus XTX
Memory	768 MB	2048 MB
Core Speed	675 MHz	900 MHz
Memory Speed	3600 MHz	4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	150 watts	50 watts
Bandwidth	86400 MB/sec	72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	37800 Mtexels/sec	36000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	16200 Mpixels/sec	14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	336	640
Texture Mapping Units	56	40
Render Output Units	24	16
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	192-bit	128-bit
Fab Process	40 nm	28 nm
Transistors	1950 million	(Unknown) million
Bus	PCIe x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 11	DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.1	OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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