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GeForce GTX 280 vs GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)

Intro

The GeForce GTX 280 features a clock speed of 602 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 1107 MHz. It also makes use of a 512-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It is made up of 240 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM), which comes with GPU core speed of 650 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 850 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 336 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 280 236 Watts
Difference: 86 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 280 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 280 141696 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 32896 (30%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 280 is quite a bit (about 32%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 280 48160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 36400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 11760 (32%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 20800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 280 19264 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1536 (8%)

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 280 GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year June 17, 2008 October 2010
Code Name G200 GF104
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 602 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 2214 MHz 3400 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 236 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 141696 MB/sec 108800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 48160 Mtexels/sec 36400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 19264 Mpixels/sec 20800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 336
Texture Mapping Units 80 56
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 512-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1400 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a 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 - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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