NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M 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 7970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M +320%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 400M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

625 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

518.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Wimbledon

N11E-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

212 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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