Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 460M SLI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 460M SLI
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Neptune
N11E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
September 2010
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Boost clock speed
900 MHz
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Core clock speed
850 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
384
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
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Texture fill rate
72.00
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2x1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
12 (11_1)
11
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
5.1
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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