NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 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 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 81.60GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +423%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

0.749 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 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

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

81.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

1664

Shading Units

288

104

TMUs

48

56

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.20 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

748.8 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.40 GFLOPS

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 Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF114

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

398 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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