Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GT 545 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6850

GeForce GT 545 OEM

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Barts

GF116

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2010

May 2011

Bus support

AGP

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

-

871 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,488.0 gflops

501.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

1,170 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

144

Power consumption (TDP)

127 Watt

105 Watt

Texture fill rate

37.20

20.90

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

4000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

64 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 (11_0)

CUDA

-

2.1

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-