NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)
AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
1712 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
0.874 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X2
+368%
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 400
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
950 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
108.8GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
2048
56
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
36.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
873.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
72.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
375W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF104-325-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
