NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM and ATI Radeon 9700 PRO 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: 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 325 MHz
  • 14x more texture fill rate: 36.4 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
  • 5.5x more memory clock speed: 3400 MHz vs 620 MHz
Launch date 11 October 2010 vs 1 July 2002
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate 36.4 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 3400 MHz vs 620 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 22.202
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 661.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 76.736
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353
PassMark - G3D Mark 54
PassMark - G2D Mark 149

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Rage 8
Code name GF104 R300
Launch date 11 October 2010 1 July 2002
Place in performance rating 1099 1102
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 325 MHz
Floating-point performance 873.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 336
Texture fill rate 36.4 GTexel / s 2.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 110 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin Floppy

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 108.8 GB / s 19.84 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 3400 MHz 620 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR