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GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 SE makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 650 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 850 MHz on this specific model. It features 288 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which has GPU clock speed of 1090 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE 150 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should be 3% quicker than the GeForce GTX 460 SE overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB is much (approximately 96%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 29840 (96%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 SE is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE 20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3360 (19%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 460 SE Radeon RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2010 August 2016
Code Name GF104 Polaris 11
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 288 896
Texture Mapping Units 48 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1950 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 SE

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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