GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs ATI FirePro V5800

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking709not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.36no data
Power efficiency3.58no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameJuniperGF104
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date26 April 2010 (14 years ago)11 March 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores800336
Core clock speed690 MHz701 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)74 Watt160 Watt
Texture fill rate27.6039.26
Floating-point processing power1.104 TFLOPS0.9415 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4056

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length229 mm292 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s115.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 April 2010 11 March 2011
Power consumption (TDP) 74 Watt 160 Watt

ATI V5800 has 116.2% lower power consumption.

GTX 460 X2, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V5800 and GeForce GTX 460 X2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V5800 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce GTX 460 X2 is a desktop one.


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