Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 460 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GTX 460
2330
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 460
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Neptune
GF104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
July 2010
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
6-pin & 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
907.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
336
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
160 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
37.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
86.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A