GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G
vs
ASUS GeForce GTX 980


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G and the ASUS GeForce GTX 980, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 460 (14CU) and has 896 texture shaders and 14 execution units.

ASUS GeForce GTX 980 is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, which has 2048 shaders and 16 execution units.
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G GPU ASUS GeForce GTX 980
AMD Radeon RX 460 (14CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Baffin PRO GPU Chip GM204-400-A1
Baffin Architecture Maxwell 2.0
14 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
896 Shader 2048
16 Render Output Units 64
56 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 4 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 224 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G clocks in the base with up to 1.090 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 is 1.127 GHz.

1.090 GHz Base Clock 1.127 GHz
1.212 GHz Boost Clock 1.216 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G is 75 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 has a TDP of 165 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

75 W TDP 165 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
PCIe-Power 2 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

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

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 3 screens can be connected to the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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 4G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 is 4096x2160 pixels.

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

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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 4G is 191 mm long, 111 mm high and 37 mm wide.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

191 mm Length 267 mm
111 mm Height 111 mm
37 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC 4G was released in Q3/2016 at a price of 139 $ (Reference).

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 was introduced in Q3/2014 at a price of 499 $.

GV-RX460WF2OC-4GD Part-no 90YV07H0-U0NA00
Q3/2016 Release date Q3/2014
139 $ (Reference) Launch Price 499 $
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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