AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
2224 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
+454%
4.849 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
0.874 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Oct 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
108.8GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
2560
Shading Units
336
160
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.100 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
873.6 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
72.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GF104
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
GF104-325-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
