NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 151W)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
1104 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
0.874 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
+138%
2.088 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Aug 2012
GeForce 400
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
108.8GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
18
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
1440
56
TMUs
72
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
36.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
873.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
72.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
151W
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
Cypress
GF104-325-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO
(215-0735043)
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
