NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 and AMD Radeon HD 6850 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

• Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
• Around 17% higher texture fill rate: 43.6 GTexel / s vs 37.2 GTexel / s
• Around 70% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 22.161 vs 13.033
• Around 59% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.125 vs 1.333
• Around 45% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 47.218 vs 32.609
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3537 vs 3489
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3537 vs 3489

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850

• 2.9x more pipelines: 960 vs 336
• Around 42% better floating-point performance: 1,488.0 gflops vs 1,045.6 gflops
• Around 26% lower typical power consumption: 127 Watt vs 160 Watt
• Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1966 vs 1872
• Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 433 vs 418
• Around 21% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 946.933 vs 781.734
• Around 85% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 139.45 vs 75.212
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3708 vs 3398
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3348 vs 3117
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3708 vs 3398
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3348 vs 3117

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6850

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1872 1966
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	418 433
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	22.161 13.033
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	781.734 946.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.125 1.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	47.218 32.609
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	75.212 139.45
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3537 3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3398 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3117 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3537 3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3398 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3117 3348

Compare specifications (specs)