NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

2480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +438%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

96.19GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

24

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.91 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

43.62 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

1046 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

87.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF114-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Fermi 2.0

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

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