Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GTX 1660
Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce GTX 1660
12040
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Barts
Turing TU116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
March 2019
Bus support
AGP
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1530 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
157.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-