GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon HD 6850
Summary
GeForce GTX 950M
115%
Radeon HD 6850
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M |
| 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. |
| Around 15% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M
The GeForce GTX 950M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950M | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N16P-GT) | vs | Barts (Barts PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 960 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 12 |
| Core clock | 993 MHz | vs | 775 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950M | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 950M | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 127 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
GeForce GTX 950M
15.89 GP/s
Radeon HD 6850
24.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
39.70 GT/s
Radeon HD 6850
37.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
28.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 6850
128.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
1271.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6850
1488.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
4410
Radeon HD 6850
3810
Points (higher is better)