AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420 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.

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1090 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	8 August 2016 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	1090 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 90 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Name	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
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		25
PassMark - G2D Mark		234

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Curie
Code name	Baffin	C61
Design	Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	8 August 2016	11 October 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$86
Place in performance rating	754	751
Price now	$179.50
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	26.72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Compute units	14
Core clock speed	1090 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	2.2 TFLOPs
GPU Power	35-48 Watt
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	896
Stream Processors	896
Texture fill rate	66.08 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCI
Laptop size	large
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz
Memory type	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