NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

296 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 +1789%

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

40

56

TMUs

4

24

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

-

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

-

Power Connectors

None

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

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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