Radeon R7 450 OEM vs GeForce GTX 460 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking776not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.39no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGF104Cape Verde
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 October 2010 (14 years ago)30 June 2016 (8 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 cores336512
Core clock speed650 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate36.4029.60
Floating-point processing power0.8736 TFLOPS0.9472 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs5632

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed850 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth108.8 GB/s72 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.16.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.1 (1.2)
VulkanN/A1.2.170
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 October 2010 30 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 65 Watt

R7 450 OEM has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 130.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 460 OEM and Radeon R7 450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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