AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +132%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Sep 2011

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

1280

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GF114

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

212 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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