GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce 8800 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT 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 9 months late
More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
+169%
907
GeForce 8800 GT
336
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Oct 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
14
336
Shading Units
112
56
TMUs
56
24
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
125W
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
G92-270-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
