GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs Radeon HD 7850

Place in the ranking	452	780
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.94	no data
Power efficiency	5.30	1.36
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Pitcairn	GF104
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Design	reference	no data
Release date	5 March 2012 (12 years ago)	11 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$249	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1024	336
Core clock speed	no data	650 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,800 million	1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	55.04	36.40
Floating-point processing power	1.761 TFLOPS	0.8736 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	64	56

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	210 mm	210 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	850 MHz
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	108.8 GB/s

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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Eyefinity	+	-
HDMI	+	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire	+	-
FreeSync	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	+	N/A
CUDA	-	2.1

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	10.05	2.98
Recency	5 March 2012	11 October 2010
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	150 Watt

HD 7850 has a 237.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 15.4% lower power consumption.

The Radeon HD 7850 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 460 OEM in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.