GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Ti |
| 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) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition |
| 99 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 Ti . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 980 Ti | | Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM200 (GM200-310-A1) | vs | Cypress (Cypress PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 601 mm² | vs | 334 mm² |
| Transistors | 8,000 million | vs | 2,154 million |
| Shaders | 2816 | vs | 1440 |
| Compute Units | 22 | vs | 18 |
| Core clock | 1000 MHz | vs | 725 MHz |
| ROPs | 96 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 176 | vs | 72 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 980 Ti | | Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 384 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 980 Ti | | Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | vs | 151 watts |
| Release Date | 2 Jun 2015 | vs | 21 Aug 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better