GeForce GTX 460: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 460 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.87% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 460 sales 12 July 2010 at a recommended price of $199 . 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. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 86.4 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 160 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking597
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.16
Power efficiency2.64of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGF104
Market segmentDesktop
Release date12 July 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores336of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed675 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors1,950 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)160 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate37.80of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.9072 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs24of 192 (GA100)
TMUs56of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 460 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: 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 amount2 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed900 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth86.4 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 460. 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 ConnectorsTwo Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support+
HDMI+
HDCP+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIInternal

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.1of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 460. 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 5.87

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 2263

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

GTX 460 2570

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 7745

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

GTX 460 27

Unigine Heaven 4.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark, a newer version of Unigine 3.0 with relatively small differences. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. The benchmark is still sometimes used, despite its significant age, as it was released back in 2013.

GTX 460 605

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 460 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's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 460 is Radeon R7 250X, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 460:

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