Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GTS 450 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GTS 450
Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce GTS 450
1359
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTS 450
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Barts
GF106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
September 2010
Bus support
AGP
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
-
783 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
192
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
106 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
100 °C
Texture fill rate
37.20
25.1 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1804 (3608 data rate) MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
57.7 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.2
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-