NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (106W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
+75%
0.874 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 3870 AGP
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 400
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1126 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
108.8GB/s
Bandwidth
72.06GB/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
12.43 GPixel/s
36.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
873.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
72.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
106W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
RV670
GF104-325-A1
GPU Variant
RV670 XT
(215-0708005)
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
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
