GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs Radeon R9 285

Place in the ranking	315	780
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	8.77	no data
Power efficiency	6.26	1.36
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Tonga	GF104
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	2 September 2014 (10 years ago)	11 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$249	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1792	336
Core clock speed	918 MHz	650 MHz
Number of transistors	5,000 million	1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	190 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	102.8	36.40
Floating-point processing power	3.29 TFLOPS	0.8736 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	112	56

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	221 mm	210 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz	850 MHz
Memory bandwidth	176.0 GB/s	108.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.5	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.1	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.170	N/A
CUDA	-	2.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	17.35	2.98
Recency	2 September 2014	11 October 2010
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	190 Watt	150 Watt

R9 285 has a 482.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 460 OEM, on the other hand, has 26.7% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R9 285 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 460 OEM in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.