Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon HD 6350
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6350 |
| 108 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6850 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6850 | | Radeon HD 6350 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Barts (Barts PRO) | vs | Cedar (Cedar PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 255 mm² | vs | 59 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,700 million | vs | 292 million |
| Shaders | 960 | vs | 80 |
| Compute Units | 12 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 775 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6850 | | Radeon HD 6350 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6850 | | Radeon HD 6350 | |
|---|
| TDP | 127 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 21 Oct 2010 | vs | 7 Feb 2011 |
Radeon HD 6850
24.80 GP/s
Radeon HD 6350
2.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
37.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 6350
5.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
128.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 6350
6.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6850
1488.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6350
104.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better