GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce 8800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (768GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
+243%
907
GeForce 8800 GS
264
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
12
336
Shading Units
96
56
TMUs
48
24
ROPs
12
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
105W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
G92
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
G92-150-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
