NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

ATI Radeon HD 3470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 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 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/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 X2 +1371%

0.942 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 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

950 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

15.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

40

56

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.814 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

39.26 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

941.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

78.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6390

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM Rebrand

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4810

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

Related News

1

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

2

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

3

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

4

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

5

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

6

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

7

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

8

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

9

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

10

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps