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GeForce GTX 460 1GB vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 1GB makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 675 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this model. It features 336 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6870, which features a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1050 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1120 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6870 151 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 1GB 160 Watts
Difference: 9 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6870, in theory, should be just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 134400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB 115200 MB/sec
Difference: 19200 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6870 should be much (approximately 33%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB 37800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12600 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6870 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 28800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB 21600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7200 (33%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 460 1GB Radeon HD 6870
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2010 October 2010
Code Name GF104 Barts XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 160 watts 151 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 134400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 37800 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 28800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 1120
Texture Mapping Units 56 56
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1950 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 460 1GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

2 Responses to “GeForce GTX 460 1GB vs Radeon HD 6870”
sam says:

Am a fan of Nvdia graphic cards i have an old 1gb 9400gt and i was planing to upgrade to the high performance Gtx to 150£ MAX but since am in this WEBSITE I thing am buying an Ati card they have better performance an cheaper then the Nvdia so am thinking 6870 is my choice

M.izanloo says:

Hello
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