NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GF106GPU NameM98
N11E-GS-A1Model numberM98 XT
(216-0732023)
FermiArchitectureTeraScale
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size55 nm
1,170 millionTransistors956 million
238 mm²Die Size256 mm²

Graphics Card

Sep 3rd, 2010Release DateJan 9th, 2009
GeForce 400MFamilyM9x
(Mobility HD 4800)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 300MPredecessorM8x
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

1536 MBMemory Size512 MB
GDDR5Memory TypeGDDR3
192 bitMemory Bus256 bit
60.00 GB/sBandwidth56.83 GB/s

Performance

5.400 GPixel/sPixel fillrate8.800 GPixel/s
21.60 GTexel/sTexture fillrate22.00 GTexel/s
518.4 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance880.0 GFLOPS
43.20 GFLOPS (1:12)FP64 (double) performance176.0 GFLOPS (1:5)

Clock Speeds

625 MHz
2.5 Gbps effective
Memory Clock888 MHz
1776 Mbps effective
675 MHzGPU Clock550 MHz

Render Config

192Shading Units800
32TMUs40
24ROPs16
64 KB (per SM)L1 Cache16 KB (per CU)
384 KBL2 Cache256 KB

Board Design

50 WThermal design power (TDP)unknown
No outputsDisplay ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

12 (11_0)DirectX10.1 (10_1)
4.6OpenGL3.3
1.1OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
5.1Shader Model4.1