Radeon HD 6850 and FirePro V7900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs FirePro V7900
Radeon HD 6850
2030
FirePro V7900
2373
Radeon HD 6850
FirePro V7900
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
Barts
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
October 2010
May 2011
Bus support
AGP
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
-
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
1,856.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
151 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
58.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
160 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
DisplayPort count
-
4
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
StereoOutput3D
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-