GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon HD 8770 OEM

GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 8770 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Sep 2013
Radeon HD 8770 OEM

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8770 OEM

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 460Radeon HD 8770 OEM
GPU NameGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders336vs896
Compute Units7vs14
Core clock675 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs56vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 460Radeon HD 8770 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 460Radeon HD 8770 OEM
TDP160 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date12 Jul 2010vs2 Sep 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    9.45 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    37.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    58.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 460
    115.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 460
    907.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better