Radeon HD 6930 vs GeForce GTX 460 v2

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GTX 460 v2 and Radeon HD 6930, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

GTX 460 v2
2011
1 GB GDDR5, 160 Watt
4.85

HD 6930 outperforms GTX 460 v2 by an impressive 50% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking638540
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.842.09
Power efficiency2.082.68
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameGF114Cayman
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date24 September 2011 (13 years ago)1 December 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 $180

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

HD 6930 has 149% better value for money than GTX 460 v2.

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 cores3361280
Core clock speed779 MHz750 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt186 Watt
Texture fill rate43.6260.00
Floating-point processing power1.046 TFLOPS1.92 TFLOPS
ROPs2432
TMUs5680

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
Length210 mm220 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin2x 6-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 width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1002 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth96.19 GB/s153.6 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-HDMI2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 4.85 7.28
Recency 24 September 2011 1 December 2011
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 186 Watt

GTX 460 v2 has 16.3% lower power consumption.

HD 6930, on the other hand, has a 50.1% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 2 months.

The Radeon HD 6930 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 460 v2 in performance tests.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
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