Radeon HD 4570 vs GeForce GTX 460

Radeon HD 4570
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Nov 2008
Radeon HD 4570
GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce GTX 460

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4570

135 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 460

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 460

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4570GeForce GTX 460
GPU NameRV710 ()vsGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size73 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors242 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders80vs336
Compute Units1vs7
Core clock650 MHzvs675 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4570GeForce GTX 460
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4570GeForce GTX 460
TDP25 wattsvs160 watts
Release Date25 Nov 2008vs12 Jul 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4570
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    9.45 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4570
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    37.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4570
    8.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    115.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4570
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 460
    907.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better