GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES vs Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking584not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.08no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameVega RenoirGF114
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)24 September 2011 (13 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 cores384336
Core clock speed400 MHz779 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt160 Watt
Texture fill rateno data43.62
Floating-point processing powerno data1.046 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data56

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data210 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data1280 MB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1002 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.3 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectorsno data2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 24 September 2011
Chip lithography 7 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 160 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 8 years, a 471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 966.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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