NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 460M sales 3 September 2010. This is Fermi architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 60.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.

General info

Of GeForce GTX 460M's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	619
Value for money	0.34
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	N11E-GS
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	3 September 2010 (11 years ago)
Price now	$88	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	675 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1,170 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (TDP)	50 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	16.1 billion/sec	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)
Floating-point performance	518.4 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 460M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options	+

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 460M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	192 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)
Memory bandwidth	60.0 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 460M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	12 API with Feature Level 12.1
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 460M. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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.

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 460M. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

33 Mh/s

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 460M 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.

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p	30
Full HD	39

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5
Battlefield 5	4−5
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	4−5
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	4−5
Hitman 3	4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion	4−5

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5
Battlefield 5	4−5
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	4−5
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	4−5
Hitman 3	4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5
Metro Exodus	4−5
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion	4−5

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5
Battlefield 5	4−5
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	4−5
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion	4−5

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5
Hitman 3	4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5
Metro Exodus	4−5
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5
Battlefield 5	4−5
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	4−5
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion	4−5

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5
Hitman 3	4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5
Metro Exodus	4−5
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5
Battlefield 5	4−5
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	4−5
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion	4−5

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 460M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

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