NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
1264 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
0.874 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+211%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 400
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
108.8GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
1600
56
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
36.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
873.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
72.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
228W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
Cypress
GF104-325-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
