AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

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

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

2480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +555%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 OEM

0.874 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

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

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

2816

Shading Units

336

176

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.100 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.40 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

873.6 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

150W

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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

GF104

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

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

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