NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M +115%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 400M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

625 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

48

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

518.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N11E-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

212 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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