Radeon RX 460 vs GeForce GTX 650

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 460
    280%
  • GeForce GTX 650
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 180% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 650

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

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 650
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders896vs384
Compute Units14vs2
Core clock1090 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTX 650
TDP75 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs27 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 460
    8080
  • GeForce GTX 650
    2880

Points (higher is better)