GeForce GTX 460 X2: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 460 X2 sales 11 March 2011. 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 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 115.2 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 292 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 160 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 460 X2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF104 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 11 March 2011 (13 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 460 X2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 460 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 336 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 701 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 1,950 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 160 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 39.26 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.9415 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 56 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 460 X2 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).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 292 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 460 X2: 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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 115.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 460 X2. 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.
| Display Connectors | 3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 460 X2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 2.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 460 X2 is Radeon HD 4770.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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