Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 3470 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon HD 3470
Radeon HD 6850
2030
Radeon HD 3470
122
Radeon HD 6850
Radeon HD 3470
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Barts
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
January 2008
Bus support
AGP
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
-
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
64 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
40
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
3.200
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
15.2 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
10.1 (10_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-