GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 |
| 86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 650 | | Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK106 () | vs | Cypress (Cypress PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 221 mm² | vs | 334 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,540 million | vs | 2,154 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 1440 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 18 |
| Core clock | 1058 MHz | vs | 725 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 72 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 650 | | Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 650 | | Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | vs | 151 watts |
| Release Date | 27 Nov 2013 | vs | 21 Aug 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better