Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Barts
GP108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
January 2021
Bus support
AGP
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1468 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
256
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
23.49
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
2.1 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
16.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-