AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

1456 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +268%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

1792

Shading Units

336

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

160W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF104

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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