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GeForce GTX 460 2GB vs Radeon HD 4890 1GB

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The GeForce GTX 460 2GB uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 675 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 900 MHz on this card. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4890 1GB, which features core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 975 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 160 Watts
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 190 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4890 1GB should theoretically perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 2GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 1GB 124800 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 2GB 115200 MB/sec
Difference: 9600 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4890 1GB should be a small bit (approximately 6%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 1GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 2GB 37800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2200 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 2GB is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5600 (35%)

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 460 2GB Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2010 Apr 2, 2009
Code Name GF104 RV790 XT
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 3900 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 160 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 124800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 37800 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 56 40
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 1950 million 959 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 2GB

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Radeon HD 4890 1GB

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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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