NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 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 Quadro FX 4600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 34% higher texture fill rate: 16.1 billion / sec vs 12 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 192 vs 96
2.3x better floating-point performance: 518.4 gflops vs 230.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 134 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 768 MB
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1220 vs 419
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 258 vs 120
Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 3230
Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 3230

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 5 March 2007
Core clock speed	1350 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	16.1 billion / sec vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	192 vs 96
Floating-point performance	518.4 gflops vs 230.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 134 Watt
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 768 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1220 vs 419
PassMark - G2D Mark	258 vs 120
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3349 vs 3230
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3349 vs 3230

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

Around 12% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1220

419

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

258

120

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3349

3230

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3349

3230

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
PassMark - G3D Mark	1220	419
PassMark - G2D Mark	258	120
Geekbench - OpenCL	4263
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	3230
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3349	3230
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF106	G80
Launch date	3 September 2010	5 March 2007
Place in performance rating	1234	1237
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,999
Price now		$143.51
Value for money (0-100)		5.45
Technical info
Core clock speed	1350 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	518.4 gflops	230.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	192	96
Texture fill rate	16.1 billion / sec	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	134 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	681 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 API with Feature Level 12.1	10.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	768 MB
Memory bandwidth	60.0 GB / s	67.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI