GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R7 265

GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce GTX 460
Radeon R7 265
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 265

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 460
    100%
  • Radeon R7 265
    195%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 265

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 95% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 265

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 265

The Radeon R7 265 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 460Radeon R7 265
GPU NameGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders336vs1024
Compute Units7vs16
Core clock675 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs56vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 460Radeon R7 265
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 460Radeon R7 265
TDP160 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date12 Jul 2010vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    9.45 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    37.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    59.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 460
    115.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 460
    907.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 265
    1894.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 460
    3530
  • Radeon R7 265
    6900

Points (higher is better)