NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 460 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

501% significantly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

326% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1768 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

17920 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21824 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

20340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

22320 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

228% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24052 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

1090 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

75 W

139% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

477% significantly higher pixel rate

19.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

312% significantly higher texture rate

67.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

312% significantly better floating point performance

2.15 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

185% significantly more shading units

896

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

185% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

278th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 460 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the Radeon RX 460 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 460 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 is better than the Radeon RX 460.