Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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

GeForce GTX 560 Ti Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 25 Jan 2011

Summary

Synthetic performance index

Radeon HD 6850
100%
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
122%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

Radeon HD 6850
100%
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
147%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850

43 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 Ti .

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

47% higher gaming performance.

Supports PhysX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560 Ti

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).

Specifications

Core Configuration

	Radeon HD 6850		GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU Name	Barts (Barts PRO)	vs	GF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process	40 nm	vs	40 nm
Die Size	255 mmÂ²	vs	332 mmÂ²
Transistors	1,700 million	vs	1,950 million
Shaders	960	vs	384
Compute Units	12	vs	8
Core clock	775 MHz	vs	823 MHz
ROPs	32	vs	32
TMUs	48	vs	64

Memory Configuration

	Radeon HD 6850		GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	256 bit	vs	256 bit
Memory Speed	1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective	vs	1002 MHz 4008 MHz effective
Memory Size	1024 Mb	vs	1024 Mb

Additional details

	Radeon HD 6850		GeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP	127 watts	vs	170 watts
Release Date	21 Oct 2010	vs	25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

Radeon HD 6850
24.80 GP/s
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

Radeon HD 6850
37.20 GT/s
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

Radeon HD 6850
128.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

Radeon HD 6850
1488.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

Radeon HD 6850
3810
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
4660

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

Radeon HD 6850
20
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
30

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

Radeon HD 6850
20
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
29