Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon R7 260X

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

Radeon R7 260X Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 8 Oct 2013

Summary

Synthetic performance index

Radeon HD 6850
100%
Radeon R7 260X
164%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

Radeon HD 6850
100%
Radeon R7 260X
155%

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R7 260X

55% higher gaming performance.

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute

Supports FreeSync

Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Supports TrueAudio

Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260X

The Radeon R7 260X is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).

Specifications

Core Configuration

	Radeon HD 6850		Radeon R7 260X
GPU Name	Barts (Barts PRO)	vs	Bonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process	40 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	255 mmÂ²	vs	160 mmÂ²
Transistors	1,700 million	vs	2,080 million
Shaders	960	vs	896
Compute Units	12	vs	14
Core clock	775 MHz	vs	1100 MHz
ROPs	32	vs	16
TMUs	48	vs	56

Memory Configuration

	Radeon HD 6850		Radeon R7 260X
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	256 bit	vs	128 bit
Memory Speed	1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective	vs	1625 MHz 6500 MHz effective
Memory Size	1024 Mb	vs	2048 Mb

Additional details

	Radeon HD 6850		Radeon R7 260X
TDP	127 watts	vs	115 watts
Release Date	21 Oct 2010	vs	8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

Radeon HD 6850
24.80 GP/s
Radeon R7 260X
17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

Radeon HD 6850
37.20 GT/s
Radeon R7 260X
61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

Radeon HD 6850
128.00 GB/s
Radeon R7 260X
104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

Radeon HD 6850
1488.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 260X
1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

Radeon HD 6850
3810
Radeon R7 260X
6260

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

Radeon HD 6850
20
Radeon R7 260X
33

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

Radeon HD 6850
20
Radeon R7 260X
29