Radeon R7 M460 vs GeForce GTX 1060

Radeon R7 M460
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2016
Radeon R7 M460
GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 M460

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 M460GeForce GTX 1060
GPU NameMeso (Meso XT)vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs16 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs4,400 million
Shaders384vs1280
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock1100 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs8vs48
TMUs24vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 M460GeForce GTX 1060
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 M460GeForce GTX 1060
TDP0 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date15 May 2016vs10 Jul 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M460
    9.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M460
    27.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 M460
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 M460
    864.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better