GeForce GTX 460 and Radeon 9800 XT Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 460
Radeon 9800 XT Mac Edition
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
GF104
R360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2010
March 2004
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP Pro 8x
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
412 MHz
Floating-point performance
907.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
117 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
-
Power consumption (TDP)
160 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.80
3.296
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
730 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
23.36 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
2x DVI
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.1
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A