NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE vs ATI Radeon HD 4200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE and ATI Radeon HD 4200 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 2.6x more core clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 7.2x more pipelines: 288 vs 40
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 17.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1990 vs 112
  • 6.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3108 vs 485
  • 6.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3108 vs 485
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 November 2010 vs 10 September 2009
Core clock speed 1300 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines 288 vs 40
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1990 vs 112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3108 vs 485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3108 vs 485

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4200

  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 372 vs 363
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 372 vs 363

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4200

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1990
112
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
363
372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3108
485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3108
485
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE ATI Radeon HD 4200
PassMark - G3D Mark 1990 112
PassMark - G2D Mark 363 372
Geekbench - OpenCL 6340
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.62
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 635.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.755
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 24.476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 48.203
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3108 485
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3108 485

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE ATI Radeon HD 4200

Essentials

Architecture Fermi RV6xx
Code name GF104 RV620
Launch date 15 November 2010 10 September 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $160
Place in performance rating 916 919
Price now $159.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 15.95

Technical info

Core clock speed 1300 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 288
Floating-point performance 748.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 104 °C
Pipelines 288 40
Texture fill rate 31.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, 2 x Dual-Link DVI-I1 x Mini HDMI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Number of display connectors 2

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

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 108.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1700 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory yes

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround
HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0