AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +580%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Sep 2011

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

2304

Shading Units

336

144

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GF114

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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