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 51% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 577 vs 383
• Around 12% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 4.656 vs 4.157
• Around 97% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 76.881 vs 39.101
• 2.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 237.944 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 39% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5710 vs 4102
• Around 8% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19029 vs 17594
• Around 8% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 59.428 vs 55
• Around 15% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1113.788 vs 970.421
• 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 32% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2286 vs 1730

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	4102 5710
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	577 383
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	17594 19029
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	55 59.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	970.421 1113.788
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.656 4.157
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	76.881 39.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	237.944 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	1730 2286

Compare specifications (specs)