GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon HD 6850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon HD 6850
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM206
Barts
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
October 2010
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
AGP
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
1,488.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
960
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
127 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
37.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
-
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-