AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +372%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2011

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

2048

Shading Units

336

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF114

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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