NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 and AMD Radeon HD 6990 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, 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2
- 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 160 Watt vs 375 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 160 Watt vs 375 Watt |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990
- Around 18% higher core clock speed: 830 MHz vs 701 MHz
- Around 17% higher texture fill rate: 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2x 39.3 GTexel / s billion / sec
- 4.6x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 2x 336
- 2.7x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 2x 941.5 gflops
- 2x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 2x 1 GB
- Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 3600 MHz
Core clock speed | 830 MHz vs 701 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2x 39.3 GTexel / s billion / sec |
Pipelines | 2x 1536 vs 2x 336 |
Floating-point performance | 2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 2x 941.5 gflops |
Maximum memory size | 2x 2 GB vs 2x 1 GB |
Memory clock speed | 5000 MHz vs 3600 MHz |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6990
Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 | AMD Radeon HD 6990 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 3014 | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 532 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 17.264 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 840.452 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 1.76 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 53.903 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 265.302 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 4562 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3713 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3356 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 4562 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3713 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3356 | |
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 0 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 | AMD Radeon HD 6990 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Fermi | TeraScale 3 |
Code name | GF104 | Antilles |
Launch date | 11 March 2011 | 8 March 2011 |
Place in performance rating | not rated | 672 |
Type | Desktop | Desktop |
Launch price (MSRP) | $699 | |
Price now | $159.99 | |
Value for money (0-100) | 27.81 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 701 MHz | 830 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 2x 941.5 gflops | 2x 2,549.8 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 40 nm |
Pipelines | 2x 336 | 2x 1536 |
Texture fill rate | 2x 39.3 GTexel / s billion / sec | 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 160 Watt | 375 Watt |
Transistor count | 1,950 million | 2,640 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | 3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI | 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Length | 292 mm | 295 mm |
Supplementary power connectors | 2x 8-pin | 2x 8-pin |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 2x 1 GB | 2x 2 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 2x 115.2 GB / s | 2x 160.0 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 2x 256 Bit | 2x 256 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 3600 MHz | 5000 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |