AMD Radeon RX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare AMD Radeon RX 460 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 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

816 points

1261 points

54% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

28 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

17 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

19 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

14 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1768 points

2038 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

17920 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

8002 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21824 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20340 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

22320 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7720 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18277 points

18409 points

0.72% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24052 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

18023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1090 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

160% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

19.2 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

76% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

101% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.15 TFLOPS

3.25 TFLOPS

51% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

1536

71% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

128% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

277th of 586

246th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 460 vs GeForce GTX 680 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 680 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 460 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 460 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 460 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 460 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 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 680 is better than the Radeon RX 460.