NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 X2

0.942 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +316%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

1664

56

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.814 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

39.26 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

941.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

78.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

GM204

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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