GeForce GTX 460 SE: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 460 SE provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 4.52% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 460 SE sales 15 November 2010 at a recommended price of $160. This is a Fermi architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 108.8 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 150 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 460 SE: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 672 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 1.01 | |
| Power efficiency | 2.43 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF104 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 15 November 2010 (14 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $160 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 460 SE's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 460 SE's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 288 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 650 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 1,950 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 150 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 104 °C | |
| Texture fill rate | 31.20 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.7488 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 48 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 384 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 460 SE 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 support | 16x PCI-E 2.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 210 mm | |
| Height | 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm) | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin | |
| SLI options | + |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 460 SE: 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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1700 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 108.8 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 460 SE. 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.
| Number of display connectors | 2 | |
| Display Connectors | 2 x Dual-Link DVI-I1 x Mini HDMI | |
| Multi monitor support | + | |
| HDMI | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | Internal |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 460 SE, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.1 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 460 SE. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
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.
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.
Send your test results of GeForce GTX 460 SE.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 460 SE is Radeon HD 5850, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 460 SE:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 460 SE according to our statistics.
