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GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 SE uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 650 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 850 MHz on this card. It features 288 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M380, which features clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 460 SE should be 13% faster than the Radeon R9 M380 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 108800 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M380 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 12800 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M380 should be much (more or less 28%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon R9 M380 40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8800 (28%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 SE will be much (more or less 30%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M380, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380 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 R9 M380
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 2015
Code Name GF104 Cape Verde
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 288 640
Texture Mapping Units 48 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 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few 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 M380

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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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