Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Summary
Radeon HD 6850
100%
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
644%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850 |
| 123 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 Ti . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Ti |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 544% higher average synthetic performance. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Ti
The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6850 | | GeForce GTX 980 Ti | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Barts (Barts PRO) | vs | GM200 (GM200-310-A1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 255 mm² | vs | 601 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,700 million | vs | 8,000 million |
| Shaders | 960 | vs | 2816 |
| Compute Units | 12 | vs | 22 |
| Core clock | 775 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 96 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 176 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6850 | | GeForce GTX 980 Ti | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6850 | | GeForce GTX 980 Ti | |
|---|
| TDP | 127 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 21 Oct 2010 | vs | 2 Jun 2015 |
Radeon HD 6850
24.80 GP/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
96.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
37.20 GT/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
176.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
128.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
337.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
1488.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
5632.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
3810
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
24560
Points (higher is better)