GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
1264 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
907
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+199%
2720
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 400
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
1600
56
TMUs
80
24
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
384 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
228W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
Cypress
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
