NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (40W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850M +66%

0.864 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

VS

Radeon HD 7850M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 400M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

625 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 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)

864.0 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

54.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

40W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Heathrow

N11E-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Heathrow PRO

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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