Radeon HD 6850M vs Radeon R5 M430

Radeon HD 6850M
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3MOBILE
Release date: 4 Jan 2011
Radeon HD 6850M
Radeon R5 M430
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2016
Radeon R5 M430

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850M

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 M430

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6850M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6850MRadeon R5 M430
GPU NameGranville (Granville PRO)vsJet (Jet PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders800vs320
Compute Units10vs5
Core clock675 MHzvs780 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6850MRadeon R5 M430
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6850MRadeon R5 M430
TDP50 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date4 Jan 2011vs15 May 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    10.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 M430
    6.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    27.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 M430
    17.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 M430
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    1080.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 M430
    547.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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