NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs ATI Radeon 9600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM and ATI Radeon 9600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 324 MHz
  • 28.1x more texture fill rate: 36.4 GTexel / s vs 1.296 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
  • 9x more memory clock speed: 3400 MHz vs 378 MHz
Launch date 11 October 2010 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 324 MHz
Texture fill rate 36.4 GTexel / s vs 1.296 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 3400 MHz vs 378 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600

  • 12.5x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM ATI Radeon 9600
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 22.202
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 661.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 76.736
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353
PassMark - G3D Mark 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 150

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM ATI Radeon 9600

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Rage 8
Code name GF104 RV350
Launch date 11 October 2010 1 October 2003
Place in performance rating 1099 1100
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 324 MHz
Floating-point performance 873.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 336
Texture fill rate 36.4 GTexel / s 1.296 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 12 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 76 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 108.8 GB / s 6.05 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3400 MHz 378 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR