GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon HD 6790

GeForce GTX 460 SE
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Nov 2010
GeForce GTX 460 SE
Radeon HD 6790
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6790
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6790
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460 SE

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6790

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 460 SERadeon HD 6790
GPU NameGF104 (GF104-225-A1)vsBarts (Barts LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders288vs800
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock650 MHzvs840 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs48vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 460 SERadeon HD 6790
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
vs1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 460 SERadeon HD 6790
TDP150 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date15 Nov 2010vs4 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    7.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6790
    13.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    31.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6790
    33.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    109.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6790
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    748.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6790
    1344.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    3080
  • Radeon HD 6790
    3090

Points (higher is better)