ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (145W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 X3

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 SE +75%

0.749 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

VS

GeForce GTX 460 SE

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2010

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

320

Shading Units

288

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.20 GTexel/s

-

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

748.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

62.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

145W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF104

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

GF104-225-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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