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Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce 9800M GT - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce 9800M GT

Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce 9800M GT
392

Radeon HD 6850

GeForce 9800M GT

Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Barts
NB9E-GT2
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
July 2008
Bus support
AGP
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
-
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
240 gflops
Gigaflops
-
360
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
96
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
24.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
51.2 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
-
+
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
-
-