AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +245%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

VS

GeForce GTX 460M

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Sep 2010

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

60.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

896

Shading Units

192

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

518.4 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF106

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

N11E-GS-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

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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