GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 460

GeForce GTX 470
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce GTX 460

Summary

Synthetic performance index

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 470

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 470

The GeForce GTX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 470GeForce GTX 460
GPU NameGF100 (GF100-275-A3)vsGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size529 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors3,100 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders448vs336
Compute Units14vs7
Core clock608 MHzvs675 MHz
ROPs40vs32
TMUs56vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 470GeForce GTX 460
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width320 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed837 MHz
3348 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 470GeForce GTX 460
TDP215 wattsvs160 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2010vs12 Jul 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 470
    17.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    9.45 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 470
    34.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    37.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 470
    134.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    115.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 470
    1089.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 460
    907.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 470
    4680
  • GeForce GTX 460
    3530

Points (higher is better)