NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M +38%

0.518 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

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GeForce GTX 460M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-IV

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

60.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

128

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.360 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

374.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

518.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GF106

N10E-GTX

GPU Variant

N11E-GS-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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