NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 8970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB 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 8970M +344%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 400M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

625 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

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

28.80 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

518.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Neptune

N11E-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

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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