ATI Radeon X800 XL vs GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking773not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.39no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code nameGF104R430
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 October 2010 (14 years ago)1 December 2004 (19 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 cores336no data
Core clock speed650 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million160 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt49 Watt
Texture fill rate36.406.400
Floating-point processing power0.8736 TFLOPSno data
ROPs3216
TMUs5616

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 1.0 x16
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed850 MHz490 MHz
Memory bandwidth108.8 GB/s31.36 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-HDMI2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0b (9_2)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 October 2010 1 December 2004
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 110 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 49 Watt

GTX 460 OEM has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 175% more advanced lithography process.

ATI X800 XL, on the other hand, has 206.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 460 OEM and Radeon X800 XL. We've got no test results to judge.


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