AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 295X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

2480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +532%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

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GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Apr 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

336

176

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

GF104

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-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

Board Design

500W

TDP

160W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

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

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