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GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon R9 M290X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 SE has a clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 850 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 288 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M290X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1200 MHz on this particular card. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M290X 100 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE 150 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M290X is 41% quicker than the GeForce GTX 460 SE in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 153600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 44800 (41%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M290X is a lot (more or less 118%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 68000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 36800 (118%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M290X should be quite a bit (more or less 31%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 460 SE, and able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 27200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 20800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6400 (31%)

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 SE Radeon R9 M290X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 May 1 2014
Code Name GF104 Neptune XT
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 288 1280
Texture Mapping Units 48 80
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 SE

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Radeon R9 M290X

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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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