Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GTX 470M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GTX 470M
Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce GTX 470M
2012
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTX 470M
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Barts
N11E-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
November 2010
Bus support
AGP
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
-
535 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
616.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
288
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
19.7 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
60.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 API
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-