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
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

Essentials

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

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

Display Connectors 3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

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

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