NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE 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 460M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 3x more core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 11.5x more texture fill rate: 16.1 billion / sec vs 1.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 256 MB
  • Around 88% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 666 MHz
  • 31.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1237 vs 39
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 257 vs 251
  • 29.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 112
  • 29.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 112
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 22 March 2006
Core clock speed 1350 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 16.1 billion / sec vs 1.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz vs 666 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1237 vs 39
PassMark - G2D Mark 257 vs 251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349 vs 112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349 vs 112

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1237
39
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
257
251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3349
112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3349
112
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark 1237 39
PassMark - G2D Mark 257 251
Geekbench - OpenCL 4082
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 112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349 112
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Curie
Code name GF106 G72
Launch date 3 September 2010 22 March 2006
Place in performance rating 1225 1228
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1350 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 16.1 billion / sec 1.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 112 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 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors None

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 5.33 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 666 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI