GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 460

GeForce RTX 2060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2019
GeForce RTX 2060
GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce GTX 460

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 2060

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 460
GPU NameTU106 (TU106-200A-KA-A1)vsGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)
Fab Process12 nmvs40 nm
Die Size445 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors10,800 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders1920vs336
Compute Units30vs7
Core clock1365 MHzvs675 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs120vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 460
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 460
TDP160 wattsvs160 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2019vs12 Jul 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    80.64 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    9.45 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    201.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    37.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    115.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    6451.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 460
    907.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better