GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon HD 5850

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) has a core clock speed of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 850 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 336 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5850, which makes use of a 40 nm design. ATi has clocked the core frequency at 725 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 1440(288x5) SPUs as well as 72 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Radeon HD 5850 Amazon.com Other US-based stores Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de Amazon.fr

Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)	Radeon HD 5850
Manufacturer	nVidia	ATi
Year	October 2010	September 30, 2009
Code Name	GF104	Cypress PRO
Fab Process	40 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16	PCIe 2.1 x16
Memory	1024 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	650 MHz	725 MHz
Shader Speed	1300 MHz	(N/A) MHz
Memory Speed	850 MHz	1000 MHz
Unified Shaders	336	1440(288x5)
Texture Mapping Units	56	72
Render Output Units	32	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 11	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.1	OpenGL 3.2
Power (Max TDP)	150 watts	151 watts
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
Bandwidth	108800 MB/sec	128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	36400 Mtexels/sec	52200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	20800 Mpixels/sec	23200 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.