NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M and ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO 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 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 2.6x more core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 525 MHz
  • 7.7x more texture fill rate: 16.1 billion / sec vs 2.1 GTexel / s
  • 4.8x more pipelines: 192 vs 40
  • 12.3x better floating-point performance: 518.4 gflops vs 42 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 256 MB
  • Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 15.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1214 vs 77
  • 24.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 136
  • 24.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 136
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 1 January 2007
Core clock speed 1350 MHz vs 525 MHz
Texture fill rate 16.1 billion / sec vs 2.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines 192 vs 40
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops vs 42 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1214 vs 77
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349 vs 136
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349 vs 136

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO

  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 262 vs 258
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 262 vs 258

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1214
77
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
258
262
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3349
136
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3349
136
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 1214 77
PassMark - G2D Mark 258 262
Geekbench - OpenCL 4263
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349 136
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349 136
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name GF106 RV610
Launch date 3 September 2010 1 January 2007
Place in performance rating 1223 1226
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1350 MHz 525 MHz
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops 42 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 192 40
Texture fill rate 16.1 billion / sec 2.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 180 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API with Feature Level 12.1 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 60.0 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI