GeForce GTX 460M and Radeon HD 6870M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 460M
Radeon HD 6870M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N11E-GS
Granville-PRO
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2010
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
518.4 gflops
1,080.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
800
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.1 billion/sec
27.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
60.0 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API with Feature Level 12.1
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A