AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850 +135%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 SE

0.749 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce GTX 460 SE

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Nov 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1024

Shading Units

288

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.20 GTexel/s

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

748.8 GFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GF104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GF104-225-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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