GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R7 260

GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce GTX 460
Radeon R7 260
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Dec 2013
Radeon R7 260

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260

65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 260

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 460Radeon R7 260
GPU NameGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders336vs768
Compute Units7vs12
Core clock675 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs56vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 460Radeon R7 260
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 460Radeon R7 260
TDP160 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date12 Jul 2010vs17 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    9.45 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    37.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 460
    115.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 460
    907.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better