Radeon HD 6850M and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6850M
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Granville Pro/LP
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
575 / 675 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,080.0 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
32
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.00
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A