GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon HD 6850

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

97 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6850 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 1030

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon HD 6850
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsBarts (Barts PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders384vs960
Compute Units3vs12
Core clock1228 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon HD 6850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030Radeon HD 6850
TDP30 wattsvs127 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    24.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    37.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6850
    1488.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better