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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M265X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 650 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 850 MHz on this model. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M265X, which comes with a clock frequency of 575 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M265X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 108800 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M265X 72000 MB/sec
Difference: 36800 (51%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should be a lot (about 58%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 M265X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 36400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M265X 23000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13400 (58%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is superior to the Radeon R9 M265X, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M265X 9200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 11600 (126%)

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 (OEM) Radeon R9 M265X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 May 1 2014
Code Name GF104 Venus Pro
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 575 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36400 Mtexels/sec 23000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 9200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 640
Texture Mapping Units 56 40
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1950 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends 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 reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)

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Radeon R9 M265X

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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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