Radeon HD 6850M and GeForce GT 720M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6850M
GeForce GT 720M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Granville Pro/LP
N14M-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
April 2013
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8
Boost clock speed
-
938 MHz
Core clock speed
575 / 675 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,080.0 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
96
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.00
12.13
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1800 - 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
-
DDR3
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support
-
Up to 2560x1600
LVDS signal support
-
Up to 1920x1200
VGA аnalog display support
-
Up to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
Up to 2560x1600
HDCP content protection
-
+
HDMI
-
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126
Blu-Ray 3D Support
-
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+