Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon 8500
Radeon HD 6850
2030
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon HD 6850
Radeon 8500
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Barts
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
August 2001
Bus support
AGP
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
-
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
-
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
8.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-