NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

AMD Radeon HD 7950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 X2

0.942 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 +204%

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

VS

Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

1792

56

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.814 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

39.26 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

941.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

78.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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