Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 460M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce GTX 460M
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GTX 460M
1283
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 460M
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
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
518.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
192
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
16.1 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
60.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 API with Feature Level 12.1
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A