
Radeon HD 6850M and Radeon X1600 XT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6850M
Radeon X1600 XT
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
Granville Pro/LP
RV530
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
October 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
575 / 675 MHz
590 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,080.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
157 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
-
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
42 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.00
2.360
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1380 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
22.08 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
Shader Model
5.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A