Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GTX 460 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Cypress
GF104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
October 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
725 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
873.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
336
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.20
36.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
3400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
108.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A