AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	7 January 2018 vs 12 July 2010
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 388 vs 320
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2272 vs 1015

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	388 vs 320
PassMark - G3D Mark	2272 vs 1015

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

388

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1015

2272

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	388
PassMark - G3D Mark	1015	2272
Geekbench - OpenCL		7860
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		21.445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		617.847
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.823
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		27.222
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		40.61
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5th gen	Fermi
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GF104
Launch date	7 January 2018	12 July 2010
Place in performance rating	482	917
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Price now		$89.99
Value for money (0-100)		34.71
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	384
Transistor count	4500 million	1,950 million
Core clock speed		675 MHz
Floating-point performance		907.2 gflops
Pipelines		336
Texture fill rate		37.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		160 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.1
Shader Model	6.0
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376"(111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		8.25"(210 mm) (21 cm)
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		6-pin & 6-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		768 MB
Memory bandwidth		86.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		192 Bit
Memory clock speed		3600 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI