NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 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

Lower TDP (160W vs 254W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +46%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.3GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

336

Shading Units

960

56

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.91 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

43.62 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1046 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

87.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Barts

GF114-400-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Fermi 2.0

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

Board Design

160W

TDP

254W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 8-pin

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

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