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GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce GTX 460 SE

Intro

The GeForce GTX 260 features a GPU core clock speed of 576 MHz, and the 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM runs at 999 MHz through a 448-bit bus. It also is made up of 192 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 28 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 460 SE, which comes with core speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 850 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 288 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 182 Watts
Difference: 32 Watts (21%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 260 should in theory be a little bit better than the GeForce GTX 460 SE in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 111888 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 3088 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 260 will be a little bit (about 18%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 36864 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 5664 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 SE should be much (more or less 29%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 260, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 20800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 16128 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4672 (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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 260 GeForce GTX 460 SE
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year June 16, 2008 November 2010
Code Name G200 GF104
Memory 896 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz 3400 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 182 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 111888 MB/sec 108800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36864 Mtexels/sec 31200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16128 Mpixels/sec 20800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 192 288
Texture Mapping Units 64 48
Render Output Units 28 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1400 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 260

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