NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs ATI Radeon 8500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 and ATI Radeon 8500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

ATI Radeon 8500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 701 MHz vs 275 MHz
108.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 39.3 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 2x 1 GB vs 64 MB
6.5x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 550 MHz

Launch date	11 March 2011 vs 14 August 2001
Core clock speed	701 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 39.3 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2x 1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 550 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 8500

7x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 160 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 160 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2	ATI Radeon 8500
PassMark - G2D Mark		146
PassMark - G3D Mark		7

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2	ATI Radeon 8500
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rage 7
Code name	GF104	R200
Launch date	11 March 2011	14 August 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	1165
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	701 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 941.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	2x 336
Texture fill rate	2x 39.3 GTexel / s billion / sec	2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	60 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	292 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.6	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 115.2 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR