GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GTX 460
Summary
GeForce GTX 960M
150%
GeForce GTX 460
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M |
| 85 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 50% higher average synthetic performance. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce GTX 460 |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960M
The GeForce GTX 960M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 960M | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N16P-GX-A1) | vs | GF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 332 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 1,950 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 336 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 7 |
| Core clock | 1097 MHz | vs | 675 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 960M | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 960M | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 160 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 12 Jul 2010 |
GeForce GTX 960M
17.55 GP/s
GeForce GTX 460
9.45 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
43.90 GT/s
GeForce GTX 460
37.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
80.20 GB/s
GeForce GTX 460
115.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
1404.20 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 460
907.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
5320
GeForce GTX 460
3530
Points (higher is better)