NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6790
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
464 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
0.874 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6790
+53%
1.344 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 400
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
108.8GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
800
56
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.44 GPixel/s
36.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
873.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1344 GFLOPS
72.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
Barts
GF104-325-A1
GPU Variant
Barts LE
(215-0798002)
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
255 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
