GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon HD 6870
Summary
GeForce GTX 460
100%
Radeon HD 6870
128%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460 |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870 |
| Around 28% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6870
The Radeon HD 6870 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 460 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1) | vs | Barts (Barts XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 332 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,950 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 336 | vs | 1120 |
| Compute Units | 7 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 675 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 56 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 460 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective | vs | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 460 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| TDP | 160 watts | vs | 151 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Jul 2010 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
GeForce GTX 460
9.45 GP/s
Radeon HD 6870
28.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 460
37.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 6870
50.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 460
115.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 6870
134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 460
907.20 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6870
2016.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 460
3530
Radeon HD 6870
4540
Points (higher is better)