NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +543%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 400

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

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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