GeForce GTX 460 and GeForce 6500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce 6500
GeForce GTX 460
2330
GeForce 6500
39
GeForce GTX 460
GeForce 6500
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
GF104
NV44 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2010
October 2005
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
907.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
75 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
-
Power consumption (TDP)
160 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
37.80
1.600
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
8.512 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.1
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A