AMD Radeon HD 8850M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8850M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8850M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• 2.2x more pipelines: 640 vs 288
• Around 7% better floating-point performance: 800.0 gflops vs 748.8 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 18% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1700 MHz
• Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 359
• Around 13% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7447 vs 6569
• Around 5% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 19.641 vs 18.62
• Around 15% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.018 vs 1.755
• Around 29% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 31.637 vs 24.476
• Around 75% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 84.378 vs 48.203
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3323 vs 3108
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3323 vs 3108

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

• 2.3x more core clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 575 MHz
• Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 31.2 billion / sec vs 25 GTexel / s
• 2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1985 vs 973
• Around 46% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 635.018 vs 435.842
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3044 vs 2286
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3491 vs 2795
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3044 vs 2286
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3491 vs 2795

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	973 1985
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	502 359
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	7447 6569
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	19.641 18.62
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	435.842 635.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.018 1.755
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	31.637 24.476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	84.378 48.203
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2286 3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2795 3491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3323 3108
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2286 3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2795 3491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3323 3108

Compare specifications (specs)