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    GeForce GTX 460M vs Mobility Radeon HD 4870

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 460M and Mobility Radeon HD 4870, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce GTX 460M stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 4870, check out specs charts below.
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    GeForce GTX 460M and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: GeForce GTX 460M and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 are only used in laptop graphics. They have lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with GeForce GTX 460M or Mobility Radeon HD 4870 here:

    GeForce GTX 460M Laptops
    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Laptops

    Main Specs

      GeForce GTX 460M Mobility Radeon HD 4870
    Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
    Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
    • GeForce GTX 460M has 1535 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • GeForce GTX 460M is build with Fermi architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 - with Terascale 1.
    • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 460M is 800 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
    • GeForce GTX 460M is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 - by 55 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 460M is 362 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 2−3 7−8
    ultra / 1080p 0−1 4−5
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
    low / 720p 12−14 16−18
    medium / 1080p 5−6 8−9
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 57% more, than GeForce GTX 460M.

    Full Specs

      GeForce GTX 460M Mobility Radeon HD 4870
    Architecture Fermi Terascale 1
    Code name N11E-GS M98-XT
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 3 September 2010 9 January 2009
    Pipelines 192 800
    Core clock speed 1350 MHz 550 MHz
    Transistor count 1,170 million 956 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
    Texture fill rate 16.1 billion/sec 22.00
    Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops 880.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 888 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 60.0 GB/s 56.83 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 12 API with Feature Level 12.1 10.1 (10_1)
    Shader Model 5.1 4.1
    OpenGL 4.5 3.3
    OpenCL 1.1 1.1
    Vulkan N/A N/A
    CUDA +
    SLI options +
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 33 Mh/s
    Laptop size large large
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