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GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 SE has a clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 850 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 288 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M280X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1375 MHz on this particular model. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M280X 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE 150 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 460 SE is 24% faster than the Radeon R9 M280X overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 108800 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 88000 MB/sec
Difference: 20800 (24%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X is a lot (more or less 62%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X 50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 19200 (62%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 SE is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 14400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6400 (44%)

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 R9 M280X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 Feb 9 2015
Code Name GF104 Saturn XT
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 88000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 14400 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 (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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

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GeForce GTX 460 SE

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Radeon R9 M280X

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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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