AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 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 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1090 MHz vs 924 MHz
• Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1038 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 16% lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 81 Watt
• 2.8x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 2500 MHz
• Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 574 vs 391
• Around 12% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 4.655 vs 4.157
• Around 96% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 76.807 vs 39.101
• 2.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 239.111 vs 81.909

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

• Around 24% higher texture fill rate: 83.04 GTexel / s vs 67.2 GTexel / s
• Around 43% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 896
• 1207.7x better floating-point performance: 2,657 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs
• 3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5726 vs 4102
• Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18376 vs 17646
• Around 8% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 59.428 vs 55.048
• Around 15% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1113.788 vs 969.655
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 8546 vs 6821
• 74.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 8546 vs 115.4
• Around 33% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2283 vs 1723

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	4102 5726
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	574 391
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	17646 18376
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	55.048 59.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	969.655 1113.788
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.655 4.157
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	76.807 39.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	239.111 81.909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6821 8546
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	115.4 8546
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	1723 2283

Compare specifications (specs)