ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Cypress GF104
GPU variant Cypress PRO (215-0735043) GF104-300-KB-A1
Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 2,154 million 1,950 million
Die size 334 mm² 332 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 30th, 2009 Mar 11th, 2011
Generation Evergreen GeForce 400
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 101 in our database 154 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R700 GeForce 200
Successor Northern Islands GeForce 500

Clocks

GPU clock 725 MHz 701 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective 900 MHz 3.6 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1401 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 128.0 GB/s 115.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1440 336
TMUs 72 56
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 18
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 512 KB 512 KB
SM count 7

Performance

Pixel rate 23.20 GPixel/s 9.814 GPixel/s
Texture rate 52.20 GTexel/s 39.26 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.088 TFLOPS 941.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 417.6 GFLOPS (1:5) 78.46 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches 292 mm 11.5 inches
TDP 151 W 160 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort 3x DVI1x mini-HDMI
Power connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 8-pin
Board number C002-37 P1041

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 2.1

Other Features

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