GeForce GTX 460 and Radeon HD 8790M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon HD 8790M
GeForce GTX 460
2330
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 8790M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GF104
Mars XTX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
July 2010
November 2012
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
900 MHz
Core clock speed
675 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
907.2 gflops
691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
384
Power consumption (TDP)
160 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
37.80
21.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.1
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131