NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 and ATI Radeon X1600 XT 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: 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 v2

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 32% higher core clock speed: 778 MHz vs 590 MHz
• 18.5x more texture fill rate: 43.6 GTexel / s vs 2.36 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
• 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
• 2.9x more memory clock speed: 4008 MHz vs 1380 MHz
• 16.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1866 vs 116
• Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 422 vs 356
• Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3117 vs 1745
• Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3117 vs 1745

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600 XT

• 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 42 Watt vs 160 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1866 116
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	422 356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3117 1745
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3117 1745

Compare specifications (specs)