AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 81.60GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +342%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

0.749 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Nov 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

81.60GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1792

Shading Units

288

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.20 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

748.8 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF114

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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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