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GeForce GTX 460 2GB vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB comes with a GPU core speed of 675 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 336 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M385X, which has GPU core speed of 1100 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 460 2GB should theoretically be a small bit superior to the Radeon R9 M385X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 115200 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M385X 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 19200 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X should be a lot (more or less 63%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X 61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 2GB 37800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 23800 (63%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB will be quite a bit (more or less 23%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 M385X, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4000 (23%)

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 M385X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2010 2015
Code Name GF104 Bonaire
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 1100 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 61600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 17600 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 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 2GB

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Radeon R9 M385X

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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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