NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M470
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M470

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI and AMD Radeon R9 M470. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

401
Place in performance rating
467
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 2
N11E-GS
Code name
Emerald
Laptop
Type
Laptop
3 September 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
14 May 2016 (5 years ago)
$149
Price now
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3.88
Value for money
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N11E-GS
GPU code name
Saturn
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI and AMD Radeon R9 M470 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
768
675 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
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Boost Clock
1000 MHz
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Transistor count
2,080 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Texture fill rate
48.00
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Floating-point performance
1,536 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
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Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
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Number of transistors
2,080 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI and AMD Radeon R9 M470.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
large
Laptop size
large

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 460M SLI and AMD Radeon R9 M470 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2x1536 MB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
192 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1250 MHz
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI and AMD Radeon R9 M470, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI and AMD Radeon R9 M470 is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
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CUDA
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+
Optimus
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DirectX 11
DirectX 11
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DirectCompute 5.0
+
+
DirectCompute
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI and AMD Radeon R9 M470. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
DirectX
12 (12_0)
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OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI and AMD Radeon R9 M470 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 460M SLI or AMD Radeon R9 M470 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI
AMD Radeon R9 M470
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI
AMD Radeon R9 M470
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI
AMD Radeon R9 M470
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI
AMD Radeon R9 M470
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI
AMD Radeon R9 M470
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 460M SLI

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 M470

More pipelines (768 vs 384)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2x1536 MB)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI or AMD Radeon R9 M470?

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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI versus AMD Radeon R9 M470 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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