GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 6850

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    456%
  • Radeon HD 6850
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 356% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060Radeon HD 6850
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsBarts (Barts PRO)
Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders1280vs960
Compute Units10vs12
Core clock1506 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs80vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060Radeon HD 6850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060Radeon HD 6850
TDP120 wattsvs127 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    24.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    37.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6850
    1488.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380
  • Radeon HD 6850
    3810

Points (higher is better)