GeForce GTX 460M SLI vs Mobility Radeon HD 4850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 460M SLI and Mobility Radeon HD 4850, 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 SLI stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 4850, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTX 460M SLI and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTX 460M SLI and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 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 SLI or Mobility Radeon HD 4850 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 460M SLI Mobility Radeon HD 4850
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 2x1536 MB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • GeForce GTX 460M SLI has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 460M SLI is build with Fermi architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 - with Terascale 1.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 460M SLI is 175 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • GeForce GTX 460M SLI is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 - by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 460M SLI is 400 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 12−14 3−4
ultra / 1080p 7−8 1−2
QHD / 1440p 2−3 0−1
low / 720p 27−30 14−16
medium / 1080p 16−18 5−6
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 460M SLI in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 166% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 460M SLI Mobility Radeon HD 4850
Architecture Fermi Terascale 1
Code name N11E-GS M98
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 3 September 2010 9 January 2009
Pipelines 384 800
Core clock speed 675 MHz 500 MHz
Transistor count 956 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 850 MHz
Memory bandwidth 54.4 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model 4.1
OpenGL 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA +
Laptop size large large
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