AMD Radeon R8 M445DX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R8 M445DX and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon R8 M445DX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R8 M445DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 780 MHz vs 650 MHz
2.1x more pipelines: 704 vs 336
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 May 2016 vs 11 October 2010
Core clock speed	780 MHz vs 650 MHz
Pipelines	704 vs 336
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358 vs 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358 vs 3353

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3712 vs 2636
Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3712 vs 2636

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3712 vs 2636
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3712 vs 2636

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R8 M445DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2636

3712

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2636

3712

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

3353

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

3353

Name	AMD Radeon R8 M445DX	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1427
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1427
PassMark - G2D Mark	181
PassMark - G3D Mark	797
Geekbench - OpenCL	21666
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2636	3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2636	3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358	3353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		22.202
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		661.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		76.736

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R8 M445DX	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Fermi
Code name	Meso	GF104
Launch date	15 May 2016	11 October 2010
Place in performance rating	1006	1081
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1021 MHz
Core clock speed	780 MHz	650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	704	336
Transistor count	3,100 million	1,950 million
Floating-point performance		873.6 gflops
Texture fill rate		36.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		150 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		210 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	128 + 64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	DDR4 / DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		108.8 GB / s
Memory clock speed		3400 MHz