GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G has 896 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.21 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 2.17 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.18 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.41 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Baffin architecture, which has 14 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
AMD Radeon RX 460 (14CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Baffin PRO GPU Chip GM206-300-A1
Baffin Architecture Maxwell 2.0
14 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
896 Shader 1024
16 Render Output Units 32
56 Texture Units 64
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

2 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G has a turbo clock of 1.212 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is 1.178 GHz.

1.090 GHz Base Clock 1.127 GHz
1.212 GHz Boost Clock 1.178 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 95 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

75 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 80 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

3 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
1x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_0.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_0 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
No VP8 Decode
No VP9 No

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G is 37 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is 37 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

191 mm Length 241 mm
111 mm Height --
37 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 2G was released in Q3/2016.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 published in Q1/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

GV-RX460WF2OC-2GD Part-no --
Q3/2016 Release date Q1/2015
139 $ (Reference) Launch Price 199 $
14 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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