NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 vs AMD FirePro V7900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 and AMD FirePro V7900 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
• Around 7% higher core clock speed: 778 MHz vs 725 MHz
• Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 422 vs 340
• Around 57% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 22.161 vs 14.134
• Around 16% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 781.734 vs 676.409
• Around 62% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.125 vs 1.309
• Around 29% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 47.218 vs 36.678
• Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3537 vs 2996
• Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3537 vs 2996

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro V7900

• Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 58.0 GTexel / s vs 43.6 GTexel / s
• 3.8x more pipelines: 1280 vs 336
• Around 78% better floating-point performance: 1,856.0 gflops vs 1,045.6 gflops
• Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 151 Watt vs 160 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4008 MHz
• Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2254 vs 1866
• 3.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 27733 vs 7872
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 171.25 vs 75.212
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3710 vs 3398
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3354 vs 3117
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3710 vs 3398
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3354 vs 3117

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
GPU 2: AMD FirePro V7900

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1866 2254
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	422 340
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	7872 27733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	22.161 14.134
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	781.734 676.409
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.125 1.309
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	47.218 36.678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	75.212 171.25
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3537 2996
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3398 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3117 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3537 2996
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3398 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3117 3354

Compare specifications (specs)