GeForce GTX 460 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 460

Switch GPU

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

GF104

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2010

March 2017

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

675 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

907.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

256

Power consumption (TDP)

160 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

37.80

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

3600 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

86.4 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

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 (12_1)

CUDA

+

5.3

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.1

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126