Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs GeForce GTX 460 v2

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking638not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.86no data
Power efficiency2.08no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF114Broadway
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date24 September 2011 (13 years ago)4 January 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 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 cores336800
Core clock speed779 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate43.6232.00
Floating-point processing power1.046 TFLOPS1.28 TFLOPS
ROPs2416
TMUs5640

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 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

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 width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1002 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth96.19 GB/s64 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 September 2011 4 January 2011
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 75 Watt

GTX 460 v2 has an age advantage of 8 months.

HD 6970M Rebrand, on the other hand, has 113.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 460 v2 and Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 460 v2 is a desktop card while Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
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