AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

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AMD Radeon R9 280X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 81.60GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +446%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

0.749 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

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GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

81.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

288

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

748.8 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF114

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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