AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +339%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 SE

0.749 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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GeForce GTX 460 SE

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

288

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.20 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

748.8 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GF104

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GF104-225-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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