NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

208 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 +136%

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Mar 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

16

336

Shading Units

128

56

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

197W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

G92

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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