Radeon HD 6850 Overview

Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850

Core Configuration

GPU Barts
Architecture ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 960 : 48 : 32
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 1488.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 1024 Mb
Memory Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Speed 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 128.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • Radeon HD 7990
    640%
  • GeForce GTX 690
    490%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    455%
  • Radeon R9 290X
    435%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    425%
  • Radeon R9 290
    415%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    397%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    347%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    340%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    327%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    317%
  • GeForce GTX 590
    310%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    310%
  • Radeon HD 6990
    300%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    300%
  • GeForce GTX 670
    282%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    270%
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    265%
  • Radeon R9 270X
    252%
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    232%
  • Radeon R9 270
    230%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    215%
  • Radeon R7 265
    207%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    205%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    190%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    185%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    182%
  • GeForce GTX 480
    180%
  • GeForce GTX 570
    177%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    160%
  • Radeon HD 6970
    160%
  • Radeon HD 7790
    157%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    155%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    147%
  • GeForce GTX 470
    145%
  • Radeon HD 6950
    142%
  • GeForce GTX 560
    135%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    125%
  • Radeon HD 6870
    120%
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    110%
  • Radeon HD 6850
    100%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6850 is a graphics card released by AMD on 21 Oct 2010. The graphics card houses the Barts die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 1,700 million transistors on a 40 nm, 255 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 6850 pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

Radeon HD 6850Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Radeon HD 6850Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
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Shader units960640
ROPs3216
Graphics processorBartsCape Verde
Process size40 nm28 nm
Memory1024 Mb GDDR5 (1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective)
Memory bus width256 bit128 bit
Memory bandwidth128.00 Gb/s72.00 Gb/s
Release date21 Oct 201015 Feb 2012

Benchmarks

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    22
  • Radeon HD 6850
    20

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield 4

  • Radeon HD 6850
    20

FPS (higher is better)