Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon R5 Graphics - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6850

Radeon R5 Graphics

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

Barts

Spectre SL

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2010

September 2014

Bus support

AGP

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

-

Boost clock speed

-

720 MHz

Core clock speed

-

497 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,488.0 gflops

388.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

2,410 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

256

Power consumption (TDP)

127 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

37.20

7.952

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

256 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

-

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

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

6.0

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-