NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost 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 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

1456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +216%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

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

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.19GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

336

Shading Units

1792

56

TMUs

112

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.91 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

43.62 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1046 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

87.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF114-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

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

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 6-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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