GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition vs Radeon RX 460

GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 8 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
    100%
  • Radeon RX 460
    106%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

47 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 6% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 780M Mac EditionRadeon RX 460
GPU NameGK104 (N14E-GTX-A2)vsBaffin (Baffin PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs14 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders1536vs896
Compute Units8vs14
Core clock771 MHzvs1090 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs128vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 780M Mac EditionRadeon RX 460
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 780M Mac EditionRadeon RX 460
TDP122 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date8 Nov 2013vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
    24.67 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
    98.70 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
    160.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
    2368.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
    7600
  • Radeon RX 460
    8080

Points (higher is better)