NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 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 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• 2.3x more core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 600 MHz
• Around 50% higher pipelines: 192 vs 128
• Around 50% better floating-point performance: 518.4 gflops vs 345.6 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
• 3.4x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 171 Watt
• 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1213 vs 525
• 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 255 vs 109
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 3328
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 3328

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

• Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 16.1 billion / sec
• Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1213 525
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	255 109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3349 3328
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3349 3328

Compare specifications (specs)