ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
1264 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+199%
2.72 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460
0.907 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jul 2010
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
86.40GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
1600
Shading Units
336
80
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.450 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
907.2 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
160W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GF104
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GF104-300-KB-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
