NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

10160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +3301%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

7

-

Compute Units

-

10496

Shading Units

336

328

TMUs

56

112

ROPs

32

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GF114

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

160W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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