NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 140 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
17x more memory clock speed: 3400 MHz vs 200 MHz

Launch date	11 October 2010 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	3400 MHz vs 200 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

25.3x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 36.4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 36.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
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		8
PassMark - G2D Mark		152

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rankine
Code name	GF104	NV34 B1
Launch date	11 October 2010	17 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1088	1091
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$36.99
Price now		$36.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.30
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	230 MHz
Floating-point performance	873.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	336
Texture fill rate	36.4 GTexel / s	920 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	45 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	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	108.8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3400 MHz	200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR