Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 3850

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

RV670

GF114

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2007

November 2010

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Core clock speed

668 MHz

650 MHz

Floating-point performance

427.5 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

666 million

1,950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

288

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.69

31.20

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

768 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1660 MHz

3400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

53.12 GB/s

81.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A