Radeon HD 6850 X2 and GeForce GTX 745 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6850 X2
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Barts
GM107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2011
February 2014
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
800 MHz
1033 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 1,536.0 gflops
793.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
384
Power consumption (TDP)
254 Watt
55 Watt
Texture fill rate
38.40
24.79
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4200 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
5.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126