GeForce GTX 560M and Radeon HD 6850M - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 560M

Radeon HD 6850M

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

N12E-GS

Granville Pro/LP

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

May 2011

January 2011

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

SLI options

2-way

-

Core clock speed

775 MHz

575 / 675 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

595.2 gflops

1,080.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

1,040 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

800

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

24.8 billion/sec

27.00

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3, GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

Up to 192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

Up to 60 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12 API

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.4

Shader Model

5.1

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

3D Blu-Ray

+

-

3D Gaming

+

-

Optimus

+

-