GeForce GTX 295 vs GeForce GTX 460 SE

Intro

The GeForce GTX 295 uses a 55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 999 MHz on this particular model. It features 240 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 28 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 460 SE, which features core speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 850 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 288 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 295	GeForce GTX 460 SE
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	January 8, 2009	November 2010
Code Name	G200b	GF104
Fab Process	55 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16
Memory	896 MB (x2)	1024 MB
Core Speed	576 MHz (x2)	650 MHz
Shader Speed	1242 MHz (x2)	1300 MHz
Memory Speed	999 MHz (x2)	850 MHz
Unified Shaders	240 (x2)	288
Texture Mapping Units	80 (x2)	48
Render Output Units	28 (x2)	32
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Bus Width	448-bit (x2)	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.1	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	289 watts	150 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	223776 MB/sec	108800 MB/sec
Texel Rate	92160 Mtexels/sec	31200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	32256 Mpixels/sec	20800 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.