Radeon R5 A255 vs GeForce GTX 460 768MB

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking666not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameno dataTopaz
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores336384
Core clock speed675 MHz925 MHz
Boost clock speedno data940 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,550 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data28 nm
Texture fill rateno data22.56
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1800 MHz4 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data64 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
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AMD Radeon R5 A255
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