NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 OEM +104%

0.874 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

36.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

-

873.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

72.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

140W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

RV670

GF104-325-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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