Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GTX 770
Summary
Radeon HD 6850
100%
GeForce GTX 770
293%
Relative performance
Radeon HD 6850
100%
GeForce GTX 770
327%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850 |
| 103 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 770 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 770 |
| 227% higher gaming performance. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 770
The GeForce GTX 770 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6850 | | GeForce GTX 770 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Barts (Barts PRO) | vs | GK104 (GK104-425-A2) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 255 mm² | vs | 294 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,700 million | vs | 3,540 million |
| Shaders | 960 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 12 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 775 MHz | vs | 1046 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6850 | | GeForce GTX 770 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6850 | | GeForce GTX 770 | |
|---|
| TDP | 127 watts | vs | 230 watts |
| Release Date | 21 Oct 2010 | vs | 30 May 2013 |
Radeon HD 6850
24.80 GP/s
GeForce GTX 770
33.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
37.20 GT/s
GeForce GTX 770
134.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
128.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 770
224.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
1488.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 770
3213.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
3810
GeForce GTX 770
11180
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO
Radeon HD 6850
20
GeForce GTX 770
67
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
Radeon HD 6850
20
GeForce GTX 770
64
FPS (higher is better)