GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GTX 460 v2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 9 years late
Boost Clock1725MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)
5552 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+1841%
20310
GeForce GTX 460 v2
1046
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Sep 2011
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.19GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
7
5888
Shading Units
336
184
TMUs
56
96
ROPs
24
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
160W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GF114
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
2.1
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
