GeForce GTX 460M: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 460M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.82% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
Contents
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 460M sales 3 September 2010. This is a 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 a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 460M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 793 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 4.37 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF106 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 3 September 2010 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 460M's specs 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 24064 (RTX PRO 6000) |
| Core clock speed | 675 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 1,170 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 21.60 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.5184 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 24 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 32 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 460M 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).
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| SLI options | + |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 460M: 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 | 1536 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1250 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 60.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 460M. 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.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK compatibility
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 RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 460M. 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.
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
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.
Octane Render OctaneBench
This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.
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Gaming performance
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.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 30 | |
| Full HD | 38 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 9−10 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6−7 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 1−2 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 10−11 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 9−10 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6−7 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Fortnite | 16−18 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 14−16 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 7−8 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 14−16 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 1−2 | |
| Valorant | 45−50 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 10−11 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 9−10 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 55−60 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6−7 | |
| Dota 2 | 27−30 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Fortnite | 16−18 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 14−16 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 7−8 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 8−9 | |
| Metro Exodus | 5−6 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 14−16 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 1−2 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−11 | |
| Valorant | 45−50 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 10−11 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6−7 | |
| Dota 2 | 27−30 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 14−16 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 14−16 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 1−2 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−11 | |
| Valorant | 45−50 |
Full HD
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 16−18 |
1440p
High Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 5−6 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 21−24 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 2−3 | |
| Metro Exodus | 1−2 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 24−27 | |
| Valorant | 27−30 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 4−5 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 0−1 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 3−4 |
1440p
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 5−6 |
4K
High Preset
| Grand Theft Auto V | 14−16 | |
| Valorant | 14−16 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Dota 2 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 2−3 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 3−4 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 1−2 |
4K
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 4−5 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 460M is Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2, which is slower by 1% and lower by 7 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 460M:
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 460M according to our statistics.
