GeForce GTX 460 SE: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 460 SE provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.14% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 460 SE sales 15 November 2010 at a recommended price of $160 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Fermi architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 108.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 210 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 460 SE: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking619
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.09
Power efficiency2.39of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGF104
Market segmentDesktop
Release date15 November 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$160 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 460 SE's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 460 SE's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores288of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed650 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors1,950 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Maximum GPU temperature104 °C
Texture fill rate31.20of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.7488 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs48of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 460 SE and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Bus support16x PCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length210 mm
Height4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin
SLI options+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 460 SE: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1700 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth108.8 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 460 SE. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Number of display connectors2
Display Connectors2 x Dual-Link DVI-I1 x Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support+
HDMI+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIInternal

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 460 SE, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 460 SE. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 460 SE 5.14

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GTX 460 SE 1984

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

GTX 460 SE 6569

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 460 SE is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 460 SE's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Radeon 550 102.14
GeForce GTX 460 SE 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 460 SE is Radeon HD 5850, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 460 SE:

Radeon 550 102.14
GeForce GTX 460 SE 100

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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