GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon RX 460

GeForce GTX 860M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Jan 2014
GeForce GTX 860M
Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    100%
  • Radeon RX 460
    160%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 860M

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 60% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 460

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460

The Radeon RX 460 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 860MRadeon RX 460
GPU NameGM107 (N15P-GX-A1)vsBaffin (Baffin PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs14 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders640vs896
Compute Units5vs14
Core clock1020 MHzvs1090 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 860MRadeon RX 460
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 860MRadeon RX 460
TDP75 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date13 Jan 2014vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    16.32 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    40.80 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    1305.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    5040
  • Radeon RX 460
    8080

Points (higher is better)