Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX 460M

Place in performance ranking	706	739
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	0.34	1.05
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	N11E-GS	Broadway-XT
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	3 September 2010 (13 years ago)	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Current price	$88	$108

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

ATI Mobility HD 5870 has 209% better value for money than GTX 460M.

Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	800
Core clock speed	675 MHz	700 MHz
Number of transistors	1,170 million	1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	16.1 billion/sec	28.00
Floating-point performance	518.4 gflops	1,120.0 gflops

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 460M and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	large
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options	+	no data

Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	1 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	60.0 GB/s	64 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API Compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 API with Feature Level 12.1	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 460M 3.19
+8.1%

ATI Mobility HD 5870 2.95

GeForce GTX 460M outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 5870 by 8% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 460M 7507

ATI Mobility HD 5870 7999
+6.6%

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 outperforms GeForce GTX 460M by 7% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	30 −3.3%	31 +3.3%
Full HD	39 +0%	39 +0%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

6−7

+0%

6−7

+0%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1	0−1
Battlefield 5	7−8 +16.7%	6−7 −16.7%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14 +8.3%	12−14 −8.3%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Far Cry 5	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Forza Horizon 4	9−10 +12.5%	8−9 −12.5%
Hitman 3	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +11.1%	9−10 −11.1%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1	0−1
Battlefield 5	7−8 +16.7%	6−7 −16.7%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14 +8.3%	12−14 −8.3%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Far Cry 5	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Forza Horizon 4	9−10 +12.5%	8−9 −12.5%
Hitman 3	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Metro Exodus	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +11.1%	9−10 −11.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8 +0%	7−8 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1	0−1
Battlefield 5	7−8 +16.7%	6−7 −16.7%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Far Cry 5	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Forza Horizon 4	9−10 +12.5%	8−9 −12.5%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8 +0%	7−8 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Hitman 3	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−11 +0%	10−11 +0%
Metro Exodus	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Far Cry 5	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4 +0%	3−4 +0%