AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +122%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jul 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

1120

Shading Units

336

56

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

160W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GF104

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

255 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

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