NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP 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 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 +111%

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

RV670

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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