Radeon RX 460 vs GeForce GTX 960M

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 460
    151%
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 51% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTX 960M
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders896vs640
Compute Units14vs5
Core clock1090 MHzvs1097 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTX 960M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTX 960M
TDP75 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 460
    8080
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320

Points (higher is better)