NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and NVIDIA GeForce 9100 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 35% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 27.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2271 vs 82
  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 387 vs 345
  • 4.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 795
  • 4.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 795
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 July 2010 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 675 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2271 vs 82
PassMark - G2D Mark 387 vs 345
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 vs 795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 vs 795

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9100

  • 4x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 160 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 160 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9100

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2271
82
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
387
345
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
795
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 NVIDIA GeForce 9100
PassMark - G3D Mark 2271 82
PassMark - G2D Mark 387 345
Geekbench - OpenCL 7861
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 795
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 795
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF104 C78
Launch date 12 July 2010 17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Place in performance rating 930 932
Price now $89.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 34.71

Technical info

Core clock speed 675 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 907.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 336
Texture fill rate 37.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 160 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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 PCI
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) 10.0
OpenGL 4.1 3.3

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