NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 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 185W)
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
1200 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
0.874 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
+225%
2.842 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Jan 2012
GeForce 400
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
108.8GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
1536
56
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
36.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
88.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
873.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.842 TFLOPS
72.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
710.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
185W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF104-325-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
