GeForce 9800 GX2 vs GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GX2 has a GPU core speed of 600 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM is set to run at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 128 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM), which comes with core clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 850 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) Amazon.com Other US-based stores Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de Amazon.fr

Specifications

Model	GeForce 9800 GX2	GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	Mar 2008	October 2010
Code Name	G92	GF104
Fab Process	65 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16
Memory	512 MB (x2)	1024 MB
Core Speed	600 MHz (x2)	650 MHz
Shader Speed	1500 MHz (x2)	1300 MHz
Memory Speed	1000 MHz (x2)	850 MHz
Unified Shaders	128 (x2)	336
Texture Mapping Units	64 (x2)	56
Render Output Units	16 (x2)	32
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit (x2)	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.0	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	197 watts	150 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	128000 MB/sec	108800 MB/sec
Texel Rate	76800 Mtexels/sec	36400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	19200 Mpixels/sec	20800 Mpixels/sec

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.