Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon 540X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon 540X
Radeon HD 6850
2030
Radeon 540X
1472
Radeon HD 6850
Radeon 540X
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Barts
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
August 2019
Bus support
AGP
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
512
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
33.47
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
112.0 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_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-