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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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 7970 X2 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)
1712 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7970 X2 +262%
3.789 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
1.046 TFLOPS
VS

Graphics Card

Aug 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

-
-
-
-
-
-
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz

Memory

3GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
264.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.3GB/s

Render Config

32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
2048
Shading Units
336
128
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
32
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-
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-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.789 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W
TDP
160W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
3x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand
GPU Name
GF114
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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

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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