AMD Radeon RX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD Radeon RX 460

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 460 +245%

2.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2008

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

896

Shading Units

240

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

67.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

2.150 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.150 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

134.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

236W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GT200

Baffin PRO

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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