GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
2480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
907
Radeon R9 295X2
+532%
5733
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
512bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
2816
56
TMUs
176
24
ROPs
64
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
384 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
500W
450 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
Vesuvius
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3