NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M and ATI Radeon HD 4860 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

ATI Radeon HD 4860

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 93% higher core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 700 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 130 Watt
3x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 512 MB

Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 9 September 2009
Core clock speed	1350 MHz vs 700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 130 Watt
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4860

Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 22.4 GTexel / s vs 16.1 billion / sec
3.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 192
Around 73% better floating-point performance: 896.0 gflops vs 518.4 gflops
2.4x more memory clock speed: 3000 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	22.4 GTexel / s vs 16.1 billion / sec
Pipelines	640 vs 192
Floating-point performance	896.0 gflops vs 518.4 gflops
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355 vs 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355 vs 3349

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4860

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3349

3355

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3349

3355

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M	ATI Radeon HD 4860
PassMark - G3D Mark	1214
PassMark - G2D Mark	258
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	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3349	3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M	ATI Radeon HD 4860
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF106	RV790
Launch date	3 September 2010	9 September 2009
Place in performance rating	1223	1224
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1350 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	518.4 gflops	896.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	192	640
Texture fill rate	16.1 billion / sec	22.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	130 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	959 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
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	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	60.0 GB / s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	3000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI