Arctic Sound-M vs GeForce GTX 460 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking780not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.36no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameGF104Arctic Sound
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date11 October 2010 (14 years ago)2022 (2 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 cores3368192
Core clock speed650 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate36.40230.4
Floating-point processing power0.8736 TFLOPS14.75 TFLOPS
ROPs32128
TMUs56256

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length210 mm267 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin8-pin EPS

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 typeGDDR5HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount1 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed850 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth108.8 GB/s1.23 TB/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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 500 Watt

GTX 460 OEM has 233.3% lower power consumption.

Arctic Sound-M, on the other hand, has a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 460 OEM and Arctic Sound-M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 460 OEM is a desktop card while Arctic Sound-M is a workstation one.


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