GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 200W)
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
1456 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
907
Radeon R9 280
+268%
3344
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
827 MHz
-
Boost Clock
933 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
1792
56
TMUs
112
24
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
384 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
200W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1