Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GTX 460 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce GTX 460
2330
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTX 460
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Barts
GF104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
July 2010
Bus support
AGP
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
6-pin & 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
-
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
907.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
336
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
160 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
37.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
86.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
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
4.1
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-