Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GT 610

Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GT 610
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 610

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6850
    705%
  • GeForce GT 610
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850

Around 605% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 610

98 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.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850

The Radeon HD 6850 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6850GeForce GT 610
GPU NameBarts (Barts PRO)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size255 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs292 million
Shaders960vs48
Compute Units12vs1
Core clock775 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs48vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6850GeForce GT 610
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6850GeForce GT 610
TDP127 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2010vs2 Apr 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850
    24.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850
    37.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6850
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6850
    1488.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 610
    155.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6850
    3810
  • GeForce GT 610
    540

Points (higher is better)