Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon R7 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon R7 240
Radeon HD 6850
2030
Radeon R7 240
930
Radeon HD 6850
Radeon R7 240
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Barts
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
October 2013
Bus support
AGP
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
-
780 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
499.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
320
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
14.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
72 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-