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GeForce GTX 460 2GB vs Radeon HD 4730

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB has a GPU clock speed of 675 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 336 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4730, which comes with GPU core speed of 700 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 640(128x5) Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4730 140 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 2GB 160 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 460 2GB should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4730 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 115200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4730 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 57600 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB will be much (about 69%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4730. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 37800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4730 22400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 15400 (69%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 2GB is superior to the Radeon HD 4730, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4730 5600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 16000 (286%)

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 4730
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2010 Jun 8, 2009
Code Name GF104 RV770/CE
Memory 2048 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 700 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 160 watts 140 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 57600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 37800 Mtexels/sec 22400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 5600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 640(128x5)
Texture Mapping Units 56 32
Render Output Units 32 8
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 1950 million 956 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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably 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 4730

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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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