GeForce GTX 460 and Radeon R7 A260 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 460

Radeon R7 A260

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name

GF104

Topaz

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2010

2014

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

980 MHz

Core clock speed

675 MHz

900 MHz

Floating-point performance

907.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

1,550 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

384

Power consumption (TDP)

160 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

37.80

23.52

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

3600 MHz

3.6 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

86.4 GB/s

57.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

Portable Device Dependent

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

4.1

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170