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GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon HD 7790

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 SE comes with a GPU core clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 850 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 288 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7790, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7790 85 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE 150 Watts
Difference: 65 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 460 SE is 13% faster than the Radeon HD 7790 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 108800 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7790 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 12800 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 is quite a bit (more or less 79%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790 56000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 24800 (79%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 SE is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7790 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4800 (30%)

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 SE Radeon HD 7790
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 March 2013
Code Name GF104 Bonaire XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 85 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 56000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 288 896
Texture Mapping Units 48 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1950 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range 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 of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 SE

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Radeon HD 7790

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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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