NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs AMD Radeon 550X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X +37%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

336

Shading Units

512

56

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Lexa

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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