NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 4.93% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 460M SLI sales 3 September 2010. This is a Fermi architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2x1536 MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 460M SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 596 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 2.31 | |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | N11E-GS | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 3 September 2010 (13 years ago) | |
| Current price | $149 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 460M SLI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 460M SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 675 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
Size and compatibility
Information on GeForce GTX 460M SLI'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 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 460M SLI: 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 | 2x1536 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1250 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Shared memory | - |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 460M SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11 | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 460M SLI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. 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.
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.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
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.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 460M SLI 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 | 52 | |
| Full HD | 67 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 9−10 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 4−5 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 14−16 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 16−18 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 16−18 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 9−10 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 9−10 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12−14 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 6−7 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 9−10 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 4−5 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 14−16 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 16−18 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 16−18 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 9−10 | |
| Metro Exodus | 7−8 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 9−10 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12−14 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−11 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 6−7 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 9−10 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 4−5 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 14−16 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 16−18 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−11 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 6−7 |
1440p
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
| Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−12 | |
| Metro Exodus | 3−4 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 3−4 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 8−9 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 3−4 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 0−1 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 4−5 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 6−7 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 3−4 | |
| Hitman 3 | 5−6 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 2−3 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1−2 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 1−2 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 2−3 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 5−6 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 3−4 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 460M SLI is Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 460M SLI:
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 SLI according to our statistics.
