Radeon HD 6870M vs GeForce GTX 460M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking752not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.32no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF106Granville
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 September 2010 (14 years ago)4 January 2011 (13 years ago)

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 cores192800
Core clock speed675 MHz675 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate21.6027.00
Floating-point processing power0.5184 TFLOPS1.08 TFLOPS
ROPs2416
TMUs3240

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).

Laptop sizelargelarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options+-

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 amount1536 MB1 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth60.0 GB/s64 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API with Feature Level 12.111.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.54.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2010 4 January 2011
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 1 GB

GTX 460M has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

HD 6870M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 460M and Radeon HD 6870M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
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