Radeon RX 580X Mobile vs GeForce GTX 460

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	587	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.16	no data
Power efficiency	2.54	no data
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	GF104	Polaris 20
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	12 July 2010 (14 years ago)	11 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	2304
Core clock speed	675 MHz	1000 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1077 MHz
Number of transistors	1,950 million	5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	160 Watt	100 Watt
Texture fill rate	37.80	155.1
Floating-point processing power	0.9072 TFLOPS	4.963 TFLOPS
ROPs	24	32
TMUs	56	144

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).

Laptop size	no data	large
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	210 mm	no data
Height	4.376"(111 mm) (11.1 cm)	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	no data
SLI options	+	-

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	86.4 GB/s	256.0 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 Connectors	Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI	No outputs
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	-
HDCP	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	Internal	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 July 2010	11 April 2018
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	160 Watt	100 Watt

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