NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +311%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

336

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.91 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

43.62 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1046 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

87.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF114-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Fermi 2.0

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

Board Design

160W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 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

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