Radeon HD 5850 vs GeForce GTX 460
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5850 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5850 | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress PRO) | vs | GF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 332 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 1,950 million |
| Shaders | 1440 | vs | 336 |
| Compute Units | 18 | vs | 7 |
| Core clock | 725 MHz | vs | 675 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 72 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5850 | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5850 | | GeForce GTX 460 | |
|---|
| TDP | 151 watts | vs | 160 watts |
| Release Date | 30 Sep 2009 | vs | 12 Jul 2010 |
Radeon HD 5850
23.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 460
9.45 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
52.20 GT/s
GeForce GTX 460
37.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
128.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 460
115.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
2088.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 460
907.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better