GeForce GTX 460 and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 460

Radeon HD 8550M

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

GF104

Sun

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

July 2010

November 2012

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

850 MHz

Core clock speed

675 MHz

700 MHz

Floating-point performance

907.2 gflops

544.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

690 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

384

Power consumption (TDP)

160 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

37.80

17.00

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

3600 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

86.4 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.1

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131