NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 X2

0.942 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +334%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Mar 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

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

336

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.814 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

39.26 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

941.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

78.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF104-300-KB-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

Board Design

160W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

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