GeForce GTX 460 X2 and Radeon 8500 X4 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 460 X2

Radeon 8500 X4

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

GF104

R200

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2011

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCI-X

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Core clock speed

701 MHz

250 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 941.5 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

60 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

Power consumption (TDP)

160 Watt

92 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.26

2.000

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

3600 MHz

500 MBps

Memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

4 GB/s

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

2x DVI

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

8.1

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.3

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

N/A