AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE 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.

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 6 month(s) later
37.3x more pipelines: 896 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
39.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4101 vs 104
Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 578 vs 320

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 August 2016 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines	896 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4101 vs 104
PassMark - G2D Mark	578 vs 320

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

2.8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 70 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 70 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4101

104

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

578

320

Name	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
PassMark - G3D Mark	4101	104
PassMark - G2D Mark	578	320
Geekbench - OpenCL	17592
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	1730

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0
Code name	Baffin	MCP79Mx + NB9M
Design	Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	8 August 2016	9 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$86
Place in performance rating	540	537
Price now	$179.50
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	33.86
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Compute units	14
Core clock speed	1090 MHz
Floating-point performance	2.2 TFLOPs
GPU Power	35-48 Watt
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	896	24
Stream Processors	896
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	170 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	1
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