Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6850
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    147%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon HD 6850
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    182%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 750 Ti

82% higher gaming performance.
67 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
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 750 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 750 Ti

The GeForce GTX 750 Ti is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6850GeForce GTX 750 Ti
GPU NameBarts (Barts PRO)vsGM107 (GM107-400-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size255 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders960vs640
Compute Units12vs5
Core clock775 MHzvs1020 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs48vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6850GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6850GeForce GTX 750 Ti
TDP127 wattsvs60 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2010vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850
    24.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    16.32 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850
    37.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    40.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6850
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    86.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6850
    1488.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    1305.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6850
    3810
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    5610

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

  • Radeon HD 6850
    20
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    37

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • Radeon HD 6850
    20
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    36

FPS (higher is better)