NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)
1328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+274%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
1.046 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 2011
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
128.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
7
1664
Shading Units
336
104
TMUs
56
56
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
160W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GF114
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
