ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

  • Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 20.8 GTexel / s vs 19 billion / sec
  • 10x more pipelines: 640 vs 64
  • 4.3x better floating-point performance: 832.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Texture fill rate 20.8 GTexel / s vs 19 billion / sec
Pipelines 640 vs 64
Floating-point performance 832.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 650 MHz
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 650 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
PassMark - G3D Mark 679
PassMark - G2D Mark 308
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3221
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3221

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Code name M97 G94
Launch date 3 March 2009 3 March 2009
Place in performance rating not rated 776
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 1500 MHz
Floating-point performance 832.0 gflops 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 640 64
Texture fill rate 20.8 GTexel / s 19 billion / sec
Transistor count 826 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64
Gigaflops 288
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs VGADisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMILVDSSingle Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large large
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s 51 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CrossFire
Powerplay
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
PureVideo HD

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