RTX A5000 vs GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Place in the ranking	773	36
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.47	18.88
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GF104	GA102
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	11 October 2010 (13 years ago)	12 April 2021 (3 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 cores	336	8192
Core clock speed	650 MHz	1170 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1695 MHz
Number of transistors	1,950 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	230 Watt
Texture fill rate	36.40	433.9
Floating-point processing power	0.8736 TFLOPS	27.77 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	96
TMUs	56	256
Tensor Cores	no data	256
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	64

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	210 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 8-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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	850 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	108.8 GB/s	768.0 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	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	4x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	2.1	8.6

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	3.01	59.16
Recency	11 October 2010	12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	24 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	230 Watt

GTX 460 OEM has 53.3% lower power consumption.

RTX A5000, on the other hand, has a 1865.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX A5000 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 460 OEM in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 460 OEM is a desktop card while RTX A5000 is a workstation one.

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