NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

688 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +130%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

1024

Shading Units

336

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF114

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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