Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 460 SE v2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 81.60GB/s)
2528 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+665%
5733
GeForce GTX 460 SE v2
749
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Nov 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
81.60GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
2816
Shading Units
288
176
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
24
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.800 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.20 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
748.8 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
62.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
150W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GF114
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
6.3
Shader Model
5.1