Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce 8600M GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce 8600M GT
Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce 8600M GT
92
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce 8600M GT
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
Barts
G84M
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
June 2007
Bus support
AGP
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Core clock speed
-
475 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
32
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
7.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-