NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES vs ATI Radeon HD 3550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)
296 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
+2079%
1.046 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 3550
0.048 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2011
Release Date
Aug 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1002 MHz
Memory Clock
396 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
128.3GB/s
Bandwidth
6.336GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
40
56
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.91 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.376 GPixel/s
43.62 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.376 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1046 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
47.52 GFLOPS
87.19 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
30W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DisplayPort
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF114
GPU Name
RV620
GF114-400-A1
GPU Variant
RV620 PRO
(215-0670006)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
0.181 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
