NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

AMD Radeon HD 6850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M +108%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 400M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

625 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

800

32

TMUs

40

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

518.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Granville

N11E-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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