GeForce GTX 460 and Radeon HD 6950M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 6950M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF104
Blackcomb Pro
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
July 2010
January 2011
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
907.2 gflops
1,113.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
960
Power consumption (TDP)
160 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.80
27.84
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.1
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A