GeForce GTX 460M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 460M and Mobility Radeon HD 5850, 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 5850, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTX 460M and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTX 460M and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 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 5850 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 460M Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 30 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce GTX 460M has 66% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • 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 5850.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 460M is build with Fermi architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 460M is 725 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GeForce GTX 460M and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is 750 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 460M.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 2−3 5−6
ultra / 1080p 0−1 3−4
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 12−14 14−16
medium / 1080p 5−6 7−8
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 28% more, than GeForce GTX 460M.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 460M Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name N11E-GS Broadway-PRO
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 3 September 2010 7 January 2010
Pipelines 192 800
Core clock speed 1350 MHz 625 MHz
Transistor count 1,170 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 16.1 billion/sec 20.00
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 60.0 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 API with Feature Level 12.1 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA +
SLI options +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 33 Mh/s
Laptop size large large
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