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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) has core clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 850 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 336 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M280X, which has a clock frequency of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1375 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M280X 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 150 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M280X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 108800 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 88000 MB/sec
Difference: 20800 (24%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X will be much (about 38%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X 50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 36400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 14000 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) will be a lot (about 44%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M280X, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 14400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6400 (44%)

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 M280X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 Feb 9 2015
Code Name GF104 Saturn XT
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 88000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36400 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 896
Texture Mapping Units 56 56
Render Output Units 32 16
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 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)

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Radeon R9 M280X

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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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