NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M AMD Radeon HD 6990M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

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

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M +209%

1.602 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

VS

Radeon HD 6990M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 400M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

625 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

192

Shading Units

1120

32

TMUs

56

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.88 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

518.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.602 TFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N11E-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

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

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD Radeon HD 7650M

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

3

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU Mobile

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA GeForce 800A

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 4150 Mobile

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD Radeon HD 8530M

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

Related News

1

Apple's 2025 OS in Development: iOS 19 Codename 'Luck'

2

Apple's AI is Memory Hungry! The Entire iPhone 16 Lineup Comes with 8GB RAM

3

Noctua Announce NH-D15 G2 Air Cooler and NF-A14x25r G2 Fan

4

The P-Cores and E-Cores in Arrow Lake Will Be Interleaved, Reducing Core Communication Latency and Improving Heat Dissipation

5

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

6

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

7

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

8

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

9

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

10

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2