GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
96 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (160W vs 236W)
GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
+45%
907
GeForce GTX 280
622
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
512bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
30
336
Shading Units
240
56
TMUs
80
24
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
236W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
GT200
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
G200-300-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
