Radeon R5 A320 vs GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	775	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.40	no data
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	GF104	Jet
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	11 October 2010 (14 years ago)	2015 (9 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 cores	336	320
Core clock speed	650 MHz	750 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	825 MHz
Number of transistors	1,950 million	690 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	36.40	16.50
Floating-point processing power	0.8736 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	8
TMUs	56	20

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	210 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR5	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	850 MHz	2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	108.8 GB/s	16 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 Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.170
CUDA	2.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

40 nm

28 nm

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