GeForce GTX 560 and Radeon HD 6850M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 560
Radeon HD 6850M
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF114
Granville Pro/LP
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2011
January 2011
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
810 MHz
575 / 675 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
1,080.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
800
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
99 °C
-
Texture fill rate
45.36
27.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.1
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-