NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
VS
AMD Radeon R7 250X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
VS
AMD Radeon R7 250X

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and AMD Radeon R7 250X. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

440
Place in performance rating
445
15.30
Value for money (0-100)
9.94
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GF104
Code name
Cape Verde
Desktop
Type
Desktop
12 July 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
13 February 2014 (7 years ago)
$199
Launch price (MSRP)
$99
$119 (0.6x MSRP)
Price now
$229 (2.3x MSRP)
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Design
reference
3.85
Value for money
2.33
GF104
GPU code name
Cape Verde
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and AMD Radeon R7 250X based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

336
Pipelines
640
675 MHz
Core clock speed
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Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1,950 million
Transistor count
1,500 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
160 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
37.80
Texture fill rate
38.00
907.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,216 gflops
336
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
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Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1,950 million
Number of transistors
1,500 million
160 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
80 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and AMD Radeon R7 250X.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
8.25"(210 mm) (21 cm)
Length
210 mm
6-pin & 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
+
SLI options
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16x PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
4.376"(111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Height
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and AMD Radeon R7 250X can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
768 MB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
192 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
3600 MHz
Memory clock speed
1625 MHz
86.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and AMD Radeon R7 250X, the size and number of monitors.

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
+
Multi monitor support
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+
HDCP
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2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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Internal
Audio input for HDMI
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Eyefinity
1
+
HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
-

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and AMD Radeon R7 250X is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
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CUDA
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AppAcceleration
-
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CrossFire
1
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
-
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PowerTune
-
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TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
-
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DDMA audio
+
no data
Enduro
-

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and AMD Radeon R7 250X. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX® 12
4.1
OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
1.2
no data
Mantle
-

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and AMD Radeon R7 250X graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon R7 250X good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
AMD Radeon R7 250X
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
AMD Radeon R7 250X
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
AMD Radeon R7 250X
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
AMD Radeon R7 250X
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
AMD Radeon R7 250X
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

0.039999999999999% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($119 (0.6x MSRP) vs $229 (2.3x MSRP))

More maximum RAM amount (768 MB vs 2 GB)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R7 250X

More pipelines (640 vs 336)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (80 Watt vs 160 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (96 GB/s vs 86.4 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon R7 250X?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 versus AMD Radeon R7 250X performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
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