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GeForce GTX 460 2GB vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB has a clock frequency of 675 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 336 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M380, which features clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB, in theory, should be a small bit faster than the Radeon R9 M380 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 115200 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M380 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 19200 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M380 should be a bit (more or less 6%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M380 40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 2GB 37800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2200 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB will be quite a bit (more or less 35%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R9 M380, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5600 (35%)

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 2GB Radeon R9 M380
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2010 2015
Code Name GF104 Cape Verde
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 160 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 37800 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 640
Texture Mapping Units 56 40
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 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus 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 memory bandwidth, 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 calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially 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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GeForce GTX 460 2GB

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Radeon R9 M380

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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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