GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs Radeon R9 290

Place in the ranking	257	769
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	7.89	no data
Power efficiency	5.28	1.39
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Hawaii	GF104
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	5 November 2013 (11 years ago)	11 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	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	2560	336
Core clock speed	947 MHz	650 MHz
Number of transistors	6,200 million	1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	275 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	151.5	36.40
Floating-point processing power	4.849 TFLOPS	0.8736 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	32
TMUs	160	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	275 mm	210 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	512 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	850 MHz
Memory bandwidth	320.0 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, 1x DisplayPort	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	6.3	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	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	20.97	3.01
Recency	5 November 2013	11 October 2010
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	275 Watt	150 Watt

R9 290 has a 596.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 460 OEM, on the other hand, has 83.3% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R9 290 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.