Radeon HD 5850 vs GeForce GTX 460 SE
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5850 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460 SE |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5850
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5850 | | GeForce GTX 460 SE | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress PRO) | vs | GF104 (GF104-225-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 | 288 |
| Compute Units | 18 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 725 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 72 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5850 | | GeForce GTX 460 SE | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 850 MHz
3400 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5850 | | GeForce GTX 460 SE | |
|---|
| TDP | 151 watts | vs | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 30 Sep 2009 | vs | 15 Nov 2010 |
Radeon HD 5850
23.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 460 SE
7.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
52.20 GT/s
GeForce GTX 460 SE
31.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
128.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 460 SE
109.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
2088.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 460 SE
748.80 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better