ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (73W vs 160W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.19GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 v2
+626%
1.046 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Sep 2011
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
96.19GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
120
Shading Units
336
8
TMUs
56
4
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
73W
TDP
160W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
GF114
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
