NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

1328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +348%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 OEM

0.874 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

336

104

TMUs

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.100 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

873.6 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF104

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GF104-325-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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