HD Graphics 3000 (Sandy Bridge GT2) vs Radeon HD 6850
Summary
Reasons to consider HD Graphics 3000 (Sandy Bridge GT2) |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| HD Graphics 3000 (Sandy Bridge GT2) | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Sandy Bridge GT2 () | vs | Barts (Barts PRO) |
| Fab Process | 32 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 216 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 189 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 12 | vs | 960 |
| Compute Units | 0 | vs | 12 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 775 MHz |
| ROPs | 2 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 2 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| HD Graphics 3000 (Sandy Bridge GT2) | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | System Shared | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | System Shared | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | System Shared | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 0 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| HD Graphics 3000 (Sandy Bridge GT2) | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 127 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Feb 2011 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better