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GeForce GTX 460 2GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB features a GPU core speed of 675 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 336 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which has a clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360 100 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 2GB 160 Watts
Difference: 60 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 460 2GB should perform a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 115200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360 104000 MB/sec
Difference: 11200 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is a lot (about 33%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360 50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 2GB 37800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12600 (33%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB should be much (approximately 29%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB 21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360 16800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4800 (29%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 460 2GB Radeon R7 360
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2010 June 2015
Code Name GF104 Tobago
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 160 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 37800 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 16800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 768
Texture Mapping Units 56 48
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 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 2GB

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Radeon R7 360

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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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