NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP 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 460M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
  • 2.7x more core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 12.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1237 vs 98
  • 3.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2837 vs 813
  • 4.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 699
  • 3.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2837 vs 813
  • 4.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 699
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 1 May 2010
Core clock speed 1350 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1237 vs 98
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2837 vs 813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349 vs 699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2837 vs 813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349 vs 699

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP

  • Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 280 vs 257
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 280 vs 257

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1237
98
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
257
280
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2837
813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3349
699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2837
813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3349
699
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 1237 98
PassMark - G2D Mark 257 280
Geekbench - OpenCL 4082
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 11.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 391.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.105
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 18.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 32.965
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2837 813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349 699
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2837 813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349 699
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name GF106 RS880
Launch date 3 September 2010 1 May 2010
Place in performance rating 1225 1226
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1350 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 16.1 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 181 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCI
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API with Feature Level 12.1 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth 60.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI