GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon HD 6850

GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 460
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6850
    107%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850

Around 7% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850

The Radeon HD 6850 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 460Radeon HD 6850
GPU NameGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)vsBarts (Barts PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders336vs960
Compute Units7vs12
Core clock675 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs56vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 460Radeon HD 6850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 460Radeon HD 6850
TDP160 wattsvs127 watts
Release Date12 Jul 2010vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    9.45 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    24.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    37.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    37.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 460
    115.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 460
    907.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6850
    1488.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 460
    3530
  • Radeon HD 6850
    3810

Points (higher is better)