Radeon HD 6850M Overview

Radeon HD 6850M
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3MOBILE
Release date: 4 Jan 2011

Core Configuration

GPU	Granville
Architecture	ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	800 : 40 : 16
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	1080.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size	1024 Mb
Memory Bus Width	128 bit
Memory Speed	800 MHz 1600 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	25.60 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Radeon HD 8550M
100%
Radeon HD 8530M
98%
Radeon HD 8730M
98%
Radeon HD 8570M
97%
Radeon HD 8590M
97%
Radeon HD 8690M
97%
GeForce GT 640M
93%
GeForce GT 735M
86%
Radeon HD 8670A
84%
GeForce GT 745M Rev. 2
82%
GeForce GT 640M LE
75%
GeForce 710M
53%
Radeon HD 6990M
18%
Radeon HD 6970M
15%
Radeon HD 6950M
12%
Radeon HD 6850M
12%
Radeon HD 6870M
12%
GeForce GTX 675M
10%
GeForce GTX 580M
10%
Radeon HD 6830M
10%
GeForce GTX 485M
10%
GeForce GTX 670M
9%
GeForce GTX 570M
8%
Radeon HD 7690M XT
7%
Radeon HD 7690M
7%
Radeon HD 6730M
7%
Radeon HD 6770M
7%
GeForce GTX 560M
6%
Radeon HD 7670M
6%
Radeon HD 7590M
6%

Data interpolated by architecture, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6850M is a graphics card released by AMD on 4 Jan 2011. The graphics card houses the Granville die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 1,040 million transistors on a 40 nm, 166 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 6850M pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards


	Radeon HD 6850M	Radeon HD 8550M	Radeon HD 6970M	Radeon HD 6950M	Radeon HD 6870M
		compare	compare	compare	compare
Shader units	800	320	960	960	800
ROPs	16	8	32	32	16
Graphics processor	Granville	Sun	Blackcomb	Blackcomb	Granville
Process size	40 nm	28 nm	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm
Memory	1024 Mb GDDR3 (800 MHz 1600 MHz effective)	1024 Mb DDR3 (900 MHz 1800 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (900 MHz 3600 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (900 MHz 3600 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 bit	256 bit	256 bit	128 bit
Memory bandwidth	25.60 Gb/s	14.40 Gb/s	115.20 Gb/s	115.20 Gb/s	64.00 Gb/s
Release date	4 Jan 2011	13 Jul 2014	4 Jan 2011	4 Jan 2011	4 Jan 2011

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