AMD Radeon HD 8850M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8850M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8850M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• Around 90% higher pipelines: 640 vs 336
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.7x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 768 MB
• Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 385
• Around 11% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.018 vs 1.823
• Around 16% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 31.637 vs 27.222
• 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 84.378 vs 40.61

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

• Around 17% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 575 MHz
• Around 51% higher texture fill rate: 37.8 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
• Around 13% better floating-point performance: 907.2 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
• Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 2000 MHz
• 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2261 vs 973
• Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7759 vs 7447
• Around 9% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 21.445 vs 19.641
• Around 42% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 617.847 vs 435.842
• Around 47% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3351 vs 2286
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3716 vs 2795
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 3323
• Around 47% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3351 vs 2286
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3716 vs 2795
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 3323

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8850M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	973 2261
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	502 385
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	7447 7759
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	19.641 21.445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	435.842 617.847
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.018 1.823
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	31.637 27.222
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	84.378 40.61
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2286 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2795 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3323 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2286 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2795 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3323 3356

Compare specifications (specs)