AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) vs NVIDIA GRID M10-8Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) and NVIDIA GRID M10-8Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
  • Around 6% higher core clock speed: 1090 MHz vs 1033 MHz
  • Around 29% higher texture fill rate: 67.2 GTexel / s vs 52.24 GTexel / s
  • Around 40% higher pipelines: 896 vs 640
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.2x lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • Around 35% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 5200 MHz
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4102 vs 1756
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 576 vs 228
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 August 2016 vs 18 May 2016
Core clock speed 1090 MHz vs 1033 MHz
Texture fill rate 67.2 GTexel / s vs 52.24 GTexel / s
Pipelines 896 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 70 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 5200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4102 vs 1756
PassMark - G2D Mark 576 vs 228

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M10-8Q

  • Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1306 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 760x better floating-point performance: 1,672 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Boost clock speed 1306 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,672 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID M10-8Q

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4102
1756
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
576
228
Name AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) NVIDIA GRID M10-8Q
PassMark - G3D Mark 4102 1756
PassMark - G2D Mark 576 228
Geekbench - OpenCL 17594
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 970.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 76.881
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 237.944
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 115.4
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1728

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) NVIDIA GRID M10-8Q

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Maxwell
Code name Baffin GM107
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 8 August 2016 18 May 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $86
Place in performance rating 570 571
Price now $179.50
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 33.86

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz 1306 MHz
Compute units 14
Core clock speed 1090 MHz 1033 MHz
Floating-point performance 2.2 TFLOPs 1,672 gflops
GPU Power 35-48 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 896 640
Stream Processors 896
Texture fill rate 67.2 GTexel / s 52.24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 70 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 1,870 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 170 mm 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s 83.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 5200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore