GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon HD 6870

GeForce GTX 465
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 May 2010
GeForce GTX 465
Radeon HD 6870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6870

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 465
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6870
    121%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 465

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

49 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 465 .
Around 21% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6870

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6870

The Radeon HD 6870 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 465Radeon HD 6870
GPU NameGF100 (GF100-030-A3)vsBarts (Barts XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size529 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors3,100 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders352vs1120
Compute Units11vs14
Core clock608 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs44vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 465Radeon HD 6870
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed802 MHz
3208 MHz effective
vs1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 465Radeon HD 6870
TDP200 wattsvs151 watts
Release Date31 May 2010vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 465
    13.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 465
    26.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 465
    103.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 465
    855.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6870
    2016.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 465
    3730
  • Radeon HD 6870
    4540

Points (higher is better)