AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA GRID K220Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) and NVIDIA GRID K220Q 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)

NVIDIA GRID K220Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 46% higher core clock speed: 1090 MHz vs 745 MHz
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
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Launch date	8 August 2016 vs 2 July 2014
Core clock speed	1090 MHz vs 745 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt vs 225 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K220Q

Around 44% higher texture fill rate: 95.36 GTexel / s vs 66.08 GTexel / s
Around 71% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 896
1040.5x better floating-point performance: 2,289 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs

Texture fill rate	95.36 GTexel / s vs 66.08 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 896
Floating-point performance	2,289 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID K220Q

Name	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)	NVIDIA GRID K220Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	65217
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1730
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
PassMark - G3D Mark		912
PassMark - G2D Mark		539
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		833
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		833
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2128
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2128
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2660
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2660

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)	NVIDIA GRID K220Q
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Kepler
Code name	Baffin	GK104
Design	Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	8 August 2016	2 July 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$86	$469
Place in performance rating	754	755
Price now	$179.50
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	26.72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Compute units	14
Core clock speed	1090 MHz	745 MHz
Floating-point performance	2.2 TFLOPs	2,289 gflops
GPU Power	35-48 Watt
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	896	1536
Stream Processors	896
Texture fill rate	66.08 GTexel / s	95.36 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	3,540 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	5000 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