AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 7 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 22 December 2003
Core clock speed 1090 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

  • 6.4x lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 70 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 11 Watt vs 70 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Name AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S
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 24
PassMark - G2D Mark 265

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Curie
Code name Baffin MCP51
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 8 August 2016 22 December 2003
Launch price (MSRP) $86
Place in performance rating 673 676
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 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 11 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 75 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