AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 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 late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

1456 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +214%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2011

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

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

336

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GF114

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

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

160W

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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