GeForce GTX 460 and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce GTX 460
2330
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF104
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2010
November 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
907.2 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
320
Power consumption (TDP)
160 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.80
12.43
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.1
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A