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GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 SE uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 650 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 850 MHz on this specific model. It features 288 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE 150 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should theoretically be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 SE overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be much (more or less 96%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 29840 (96%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 SE is a bit (more or less 19%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3360 (19%)

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 RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 August 2016
Code Name GF104 Polaris 11
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 17440 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 14 nm
Transistors 1950 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

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

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 SE

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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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