AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +21%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 SE

0.749 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 460 SE

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2010

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

384

Shading Units

288

24

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.20 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

748.8 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF104-225-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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