Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 8650M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6850
Radeon HD 8650M
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Barts
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Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
January 2013
Bus support
AGP
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
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650 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
900 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
384
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
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Texture fill rate
37.20
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
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4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
1
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HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
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Enduro
-
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HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
-
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