Radeon HD 6850M and Radeon RX 560X Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6850M

Radeon RX 560X Mobile

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

Granville Pro/LP

Polaris 11

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

January 2011

January 2017

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Boost clock speed

1275 MHz

Core clock speed

575 / 675 MHz

1172 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,080.0 gflops

2,611 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,040 million

3,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

60-80 Watt

Texture fill rate

27.00

81.60

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

92.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

FreeSync