NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600 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 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 275 MHz
  • 34.4x more texture fill rate: 37.8 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 768 MB vs 128 MB
  • 7.2x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 125.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2264 vs 18
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 384 vs 186
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 July 2010 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed 675 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate 37.8 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 768 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2264 vs 18
PassMark - G2D Mark 384 vs 186

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2264
18
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
384
186
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600
PassMark - G3D Mark 2264 18
PassMark - G2D Mark 384 186
Geekbench - OpenCL 7745
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Rankine
Code name GF104 NV31 A1
Launch date 12 July 2010 1 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Place in performance rating 943 945
Price now $89.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 34.71

Technical info

Core clock speed 675 MHz 275 MHz
Floating-point performance 907.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 336
Texture fill rate 37.8 GTexel / s 1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 160 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 80 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI No outputs
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 AGP 8x
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) 9.0a
OpenGL 4.1 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 768 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 86.4 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI