
Radeon HD 6850 X2 and GeForce GTX 960A - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs GeForce GTX 960A
Radeon HD 6850 X2
2610
GeForce GTX 960A
3167
Radeon HD 6850 X2
GeForce GTX 960A
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Barts
GM107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2011
March 2015
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
1085 MHz
Core clock speed
800 MHz
1029 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 1,536.0 gflops
1,389 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
640
Power consumption (TDP)
254 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
38.40
43.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4200 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
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