Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GTX 960M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTX 960M
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Barts
N16P-GX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
March 2015
Bus support
AGP
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
-
1202 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1096 MHz
CUDA cores
-
640
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
1,505 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
640
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
47.04
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
80 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
Ansel
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
BatteryBoost
-
+
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-