AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 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 FireStream 9270 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)
464 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9270
+14%
1.2 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 v2
1.046 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Sep 2011
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
96.19GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
800
Shading Units
336
40
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
160W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GF114
RV770 XT
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
