GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

52 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 1050 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiRadeon HD 6850
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-400-A1)vsBarts (Barts PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders768vs960
Compute Units6vs12
Core clock1290 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs48vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiRadeon HD 6850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 TiRadeon HD 6850
TDP75 wattsvs127 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    41.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    24.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    61.90 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    37.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    1981.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6850
    1488.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better