NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 and AMD Radeon HD 6870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

• Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
• 3.8x more memory clock speed: 4008 MHz vs 1050 MHz
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 418 vs 407
• Around 59% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7872 vs 4950
• Around 35% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 22.161 vs 16.41
• Around 58% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.125 vs 1.344
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 47.218 vs 45.514

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870

• Around 16% higher texture fill rate: 50.4 GTexel / s vs 43.6 GTexel / s
• 3.3x more pipelines: 1120 vs 336
• Around 93% better floating-point performance: 2,016.0 gflops vs 1,045.6 gflops
• Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 151 Watt vs 160 Watt
• Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2220 vs 1872
• Around 10% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 857.798 vs 781.734
• 2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 184.41 vs 75.212
• Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4238 vs 3537
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3711 vs 3398
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 3117
• Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4238 vs 3537
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3711 vs 3398
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 3117

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6870

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1872 2220
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	418 407
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	7872 4950
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	22.161 16.41
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	781.734 857.798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.125 1.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	47.218 45.514
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	75.212 184.41
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3537 4238
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3398 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3117 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3537 4238
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3398 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3117 3349

Compare specifications (specs)