AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

624 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (127W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +42%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Sep 2011

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

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

336

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GF114

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 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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