NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +92%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.19GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

1120

56

TMUs

56

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.91 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

43.62 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

1046 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

87.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Barts

GF114-400-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

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

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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