Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GTX 260M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GTX 260M
Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce GTX 260M
390
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTX 260M
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Barts
N10E-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
March 2009
Bus support
AGP
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
-
2-way
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
-
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
112
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
308 gflops
Gigaflops
-
462
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
112
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
31 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
Up to 950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
61 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPortSingle Link DVIDual Link DVIVGALVDSHDMI
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
Power management
-
8.0
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-