GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs Radeon R9 FURY X

Place in the ranking	218	777
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	6.90	no data
Power efficiency	6.20	1.38
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Fiji	GF104
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Design	reference	no data
Release date	24 June 2015 (9 years ago)	11 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$649	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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	4096	336
Compute units	64	no data
Core clock speed	no data	650 MHz
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	8,900 million	1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	275 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	268.8	36.40
Floating-point processing power	8.602 TFLOPS	0.8736 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	32
TMUs	256	56

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).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	191 mm	210 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire	+	-

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	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)	+	no data
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1050 MHz	850 MHz
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	108.8 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	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Eyefinity	+	-
Number of Eyefinity displays	6	no data
HDMI	+	+
DisplayPort support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration	+	-
CrossFire	+	-
FRTC	+	-
FreeSync	+	-
HD3D	+	-
LiquidVR	+	-
PowerTune	+	-
TressFX	+	-
TrueAudio	+	-
UVD	+	-
VCE	+	-
DDMA audio	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	DirectX® 12	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.3	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
Vulkan	+	N/A
Mantle	+	-
CUDA	-	2.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	24.84	3.02
Recency	24 June 2015	11 October 2010
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	275 Watt	150 Watt

R9 FURY X has a 722.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 460 OEM, on the other hand, has 83.3% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R9 FURY X is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 460 OEM in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.