NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES vs AMD FirePro W4000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES and 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)
AMD FirePro W4000 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)
432 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
1.046 TFLOPS
FirePro W4000
+21%
1.267 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2011
Release Date
Aug 2012
GeForce 400
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1002 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.3GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
768
56
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.91 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
43.62 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1046 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
87.19 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF114
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GF114-400-A1
GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
212 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
