NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 ATI Radeon HD 3470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 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 6 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

296 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 +1317%

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

15.20GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

336

Shading Units

40

56

TMUs

4

24

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

RV620

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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