GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 460
Summary
GeForce GTX 470
132%
GeForce GTX 460
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 470 |
Around 32% higher average synthetic performance. |
Supports PhysX |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460 |
55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 470 . |
Supports PhysX |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 470
The GeForce GTX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 470 | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
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GPU Name | GF100 (GF100-275-A3) | vs | GF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1) |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 529 mm² | vs | 332 mm² |
Transistors | 3,100 million | vs | 1,950 million |
Shaders | 448 | vs | 336 |
Compute Units | 14 | vs | 7 |
Core clock | 608 MHz | vs | 675 MHz |
ROPs | 40 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 56 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 470 | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 320 bit | vs | 256 bit |
Memory Speed | 837 MHz
3348 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1280 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 470 | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
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TDP | 215 watts | vs | 160 watts |
Release Date | 26 Mar 2010 | vs | 12 Jul 2010 |
GeForce GTX 470
17.00 GP/s
GeForce GTX 460
9.45 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 470
34.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 460
37.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 470
134.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 460
115.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 470
1089.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 460
907.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 470
4680
GeForce GTX 460
3530
Points (higher is better)