AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Cypress GF104
GPU variant Cypress PRO (215-0735043) GF104-225-A1
Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 2,154 million 1,950 million
Die size 334 mm² 332 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 21st, 2012 Nov 15th, 2010
Generation Northern Islands GeForce 400
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 105 in our database 2 in our database
Predecessor Evergreen GeForce 200
Successor Southern Islands GeForce 500
Launch price 160 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 725 MHz 650 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective 850 MHz 3.4 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1300 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 128.0 GB/s 108.8 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1440 288
TMUs 72 48
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 18
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 512 KB 512 KB
SM count 6

Performance

Pixel rate 23.20 GPixel/s 7.800 GPixel/s
Texture rate 52.20 GTexel/s 31.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.088 TFLOPS 748.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 417.6 GFLOPS (1:5) 62.40 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches 210 mm 8.3 inches
TDP 151 W 150 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI
Power connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Board number E174 P1041

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 2.1

Other Features

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