GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 215W)
GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages
More VRAM (1280GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
907
GeForce GTX 470
+20%
1089
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
320bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
14
336
Shading Units
448
56
TMUs
56
24
ROPs
40
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
384 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
215W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
GF100
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
GF100-275-A3
Fermi
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
