AMD Radeon HD 7790 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7790 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7790

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• Around 29% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 778 MHz
• Around 28% higher texture fill rate: 56 GTexel / s vs 43.6 GTexel / s
• 2.7x more pipelines: 896 vs 336
• Around 71% better floating-point performance: 1,792 gflops vs 1,045.6 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 160 Watt
• Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 4008 MHz
• Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3090 vs 1872
• Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 459 vs 418
• Around 88% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 14832 vs 7872
• Around 84% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 40.749 vs 22.161
• Around 6% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 828.247 vs 781.734
• Around 71% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.631 vs 2.125
• Around 34% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 63.284 vs 47.218
• 2.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 217.744 vs 75.212
• Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5087 vs 3537
• Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5087 vs 3537

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

• 3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3398 vs 988
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3117 vs 2061
• 3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3398 vs 988
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3117 vs 2061

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7790
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3090 1872
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	459 418
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	14832 7872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	40.749 22.161
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	828.247 781.734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.631 2.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	63.284 47.218
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	217.744 75.212
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5087 3537
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	988 3398
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2061 3117
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5087 3537
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	988 3398
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2061 3117

Compare specifications (specs)