Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Barts
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
May 2017
Bus support
AGP
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1341 - 1480 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1063 - 1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
60 - 70 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
6.144 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-