AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 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

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 81.60GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +178%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

0.749 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

81.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

288

72

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

748.8 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF114

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

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