ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 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

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

464 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 +14%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2011

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

336

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GF114

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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