AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

1200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +186%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Nov 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

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

336

96

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF114

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

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