NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
4.5x more core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 300 MHz
3x more texture fill rate: 16.1 billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 256 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 532 MHz
9.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1207 vs 123
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 253 vs 122

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 30 September 2005
Core clock speed	1350 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	16.1 billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz vs 532 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1207 vs 123
PassMark - G2D Mark	253 vs 122

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1207

123

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

253

122

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	1207	123
PassMark - G2D Mark	253	122
Geekbench - OpenCL	4119
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	11.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	391.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.105
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	32.965
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF106	NV48
Launch date	3 September 2010	30 September 2005
Place in performance rating	1231	1233
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1350 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	518.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	16.1 billion / sec	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12 API with Feature Level 12.1	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	60.0 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	532 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI