NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
2480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
0.874 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2
+555%
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
108.8GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
2816
56
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
36.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
-
-
-
873.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
72.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
500W
450 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
Vesuvius
GF104-325-A1
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
