AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6990

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990 +240%

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 SE

0.749 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

VS

GeForce GTX 460 SE

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Nov 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1536

Shading Units

288

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

79.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.20 GTexel/s

-

2.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

748.8 GFLOPS

637.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

GF104

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

GF104-225-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

389 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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