GeForce GTX 295 vs GeForce GTX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 295 comes with clock speeds of 576 MHz on the GPU, and 999 MHz on the 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 240 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 28 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 460 2GB, which comes with GPU core speed of 675 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 336 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 295	GeForce GTX 460 2GB
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	January 8, 2009	July 2010
Code Name	G200b	GF104
Fab Process	55 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16
Memory	896 MB (x2)	2048 MB
Core Speed	576 MHz (x2)	675 MHz
Shader Speed	1242 MHz (x2)	1350 MHz
Memory Speed	999 MHz (x2)	900 MHz
Unified Shaders	240 (x2)	336
Texture Mapping Units	80 (x2)	56
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	160 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	223776 MB/sec	115200 MB/sec
Texel Rate	92160 Mtexels/sec	37800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	32256 Mpixels/sec	21600 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.