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GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce GTX 460 1GB
IntroThe GeForce GTX 260 comes with a clock speed of 576 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 999 MHz. It also features a 448-bit bus, and uses a 65 nm design. It features 192 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 28 Raster Operation Units.Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 460 1GB, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 675 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 336 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 460 1GB is 3% faster than the GeForce GTX 260 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 460 1GB will be a little bit (approximately 3%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 260. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 1GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
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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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One Response to “GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce GTX 460 1GB”i have an alienware aurora(Desktop) with 1792 mb dual gtx 260 sli graphics card and my brother is going to buy a laptop alienware m17x and they are offering him a 1.5gb dual gtx 460m sli graphics card
Do you think that 1.5gb 460m is better than 1792mb gtx 260 ??