NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 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) 2 month(s) later
  • 4.9x more core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 275 MHz
  • 14.6x more texture fill rate: 16.1 billion / sec vs 1.1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
  • 12x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 128 MB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 29.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1237 vs 42
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 257 vs 127
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 6 June 2006
Core clock speed 1350 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate 16.1 billion / sec vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1237 vs 42
PassMark - G2D Mark 257 vs 127

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285

  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 50 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 18 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1237
42
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
257
127
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
PassMark - G3D Mark 1237 42
PassMark - G2D Mark 257 127
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
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 Quadro NVS 285

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Curie
Code name GF106 NV44 A2
Launch date 3 September 2010 6 June 2006
Place in performance rating 1225 1227
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $27.99
Price now $61.99
Value for money (0-100) 0.72

Technical info

Core clock speed 1350 MHz 275 MHz
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 16.1 billion / sec 1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 18 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 75 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DMS-59

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Length 168 mm
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 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 60.0 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI