Quadro FX 470 vs Radeon R7 M460

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking792not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameMesoC79
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date15 May 2016 (8 years ago)12 September 2007 (17 years ago)

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 cores38416
Core clock speed1100 MHz580 MHz
Boost clock speed1125 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,550 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data38 Watt
Texture fill rate27.004.640
Floating-point processing power0.864 TFLOPS0.0448 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs248

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCI
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.04.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 12 September 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

R7 M460 has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M460 and Quadro FX 470. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 M460 is a notebook card while Quadro FX 470 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R7 M460
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