NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1104 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (151W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 X2

0.942 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +121%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

1440

56

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.814 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

39.26 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

941.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

78.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

151W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Cypress

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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