AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1090 MHz vs 1006 MHz
• Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1058 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 195 Watt
• Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 6008 MHz
• Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 574 vs 533
• Around 19% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 55.048 vs 46.086
• 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 76.807 vs 36.463
• 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 239.111 vs 99.577

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

• Around 92% higher texture fill rate: 128.8 billion / sec vs 67.2 GTexel / s
• Around 71% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 896
• 1404.7x better floating-point performance: 3,090.4 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs
• Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5545 vs 4102
• Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18433 vs 17646
• Around 2% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 989.685 vs 969.655
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 7222 vs 6821
• 62.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 7222 vs 115.4
• Around 15% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1990 vs 1723

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	4102 5545
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	574 533
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	17646 18433
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	55.048 46.086
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	969.655 989.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.655 4.645
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	76.807 36.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	239.111 99.577
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6821 7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	115.4 7222
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	1723 1990

Compare specifications (specs)