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GeForce GTX 285 2GB vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 285 2GB features a GPU clock speed of 648 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 1242 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is made up of 240 Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which has a core clock speed of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 285 2GB 204 Watts
Difference: 129 Watts (172%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 285 2GB will be 42% quicker than the Radeon RX 460 2GB overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 2GB 158976 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 46976 (42%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB will be a bit (approximately 18%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 285 2GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 285 2GB 51840 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 9200 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 285 2GB will be a small bit (about 19%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 2GB 20736 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3296 (19%)

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 285 2GB Radeon RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 15, 2009 August 2016
Code Name G200b Polaris 11
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 648 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 2484 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 204 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 158976 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 51840 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20736 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 896
Texture Mapping Units 80 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 512-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1400 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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 max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 285 2GB

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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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