NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +376%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

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

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

2048

Shading Units

336

128

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

160W

450 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

GM204-400-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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