AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)
688 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7850
+68%
1.761 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 v2
1.046 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Sep 2011
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
96.19GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
1024
Shading Units
336
64
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
24
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-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.52 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
55.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
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-
-
1.761 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
110.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
160W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GF114
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
