Radeon HD 6850M vs Radeon HD 6850

Radeon HD 6850M
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3MOBILE
Release date: 4 Jan 2011
Radeon HD 6850M
Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850M

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6850MRadeon HD 6850
GPU NameGranville (Granville PRO)vsBarts (Barts PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders800vs960
Compute Units10vs12
Core clock675 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6850MRadeon HD 6850
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6850MRadeon HD 6850
TDP50 wattsvs127 watts
Release Date4 Jan 2011vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    10.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    24.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    27.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    37.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    1080.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6850
    1488.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better