Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Broadway
GF114
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
September 2011
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
800 MHz
779 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,280.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
336
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
160 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.00
43.62
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1280 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
4008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
128.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A