AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 M290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +344%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

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GeForce GTX 460M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Sep 2010

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

60.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1280

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

518.4 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GF106

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N11E-GS-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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