NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +262%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.19GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

336

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

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

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1046 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

87.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

New Zealand

GF114-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

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

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 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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