AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +320%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

GeForce GTX 460M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Sep 2010

London

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

60.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

518.4 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GF106

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N11E-GS-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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