Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 460 768MB - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 460 768MB
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Cayman
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Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
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Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
880 MHz
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Core clock speed
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675 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
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Number of transistors
2,640 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
336
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
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Texture fill rate
84.48
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Memory type
DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
1800 MHz
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
1
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HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
-
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DirectX
DirectX® 11
11
Mantle
-
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OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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AppAcceleration
-
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CrossFire
1
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Enduro
-
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HD3D
-
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PowerTune
-
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TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
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