NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 37.8 GTexel / s vs 34.0 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	37.8 GTexel / s vs 34.0 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

Around 26% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 675 MHz
2.4x more pipelines: 800 vs 336
Around 50% better floating-point performance: 1,360.0 gflops vs 907.2 gflops
Around 48% lower typical power consumption: 108 Watt vs 160 Watt
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 768 MB
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 4780 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 675 MHz
Pipelines	800 vs 336
Floating-point performance	1,360.0 gflops vs 907.2 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	108 Watt vs 160 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 768 MB
Memory clock speed	4780 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460	ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	2272
PassMark - G2D Mark	388
Geekbench - OpenCL	7860
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	21.445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	617.847
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.823
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	27.222
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	40.61
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460	ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF104	Juniper
Launch date	12 July 2010	4 July 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$229
Place in performance rating	917	not rated
Price now	$89.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	34.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	675 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	907.2 gflops	1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	336	800
Texture fill rate	37.8 GTexel / s	34.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt	108 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376"(111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	8.25"(210 mm) (21 cm)	208 mm
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	6-pin & 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.1	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	768 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	86.4 GB / s	76.5 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	4780 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI